Feng is a Ph.D. student specializing in the history of science and technology in late modern Europe. His current project focuses on how attention came to be understood as a social crisis in Britain and France from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and how, during this period, perceptual, dietary, and technological regulations shaped the idea of normal attention, ultimately transforming understandings of the mind, body, self, and what it meant to be a modern subject.

Advisor: Christopher Otter