He is finalizing a book project, Landscape and Technology: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1760-1830 , which addresses cartographic, meteorological, and agrarian technologies in British landscape aesthetics during the 18th century. He has published essays on William Blake in Visible Language , TEXT Technology , The Wordsworth Circle and Praxis . Ron has recently authored a variety of essays on contemporary animals in art and culture including an essay on pets in Reykjavík recently translated into Icelandic, artists diving with sharks and painting them under water, and an essay on the Tendergene, a recently trademarked product used in contemporary cattle breeding.