Jesse Nathan
مدرس · 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature
University of California, Berkeleyمعرفی
Jesse Nathan is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His work spans poetry, literary criticism, and translation, with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century British and American literature. He is the author of Eggtooth (2023), which won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry, and editor of In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth (2017). His critical essays and translations have appeared in venues such as the New York Times, Threepenny Review, and Poetry magazine.
- Research Interests: Poetry, Film Studies, Literary Form, Translation, and Cultural Identity
- Teaching: Previously taught at Stanford University, Kenyon College, Bread Loaf, and others
Nathan is a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series and has conducted interviews with contemporary poets for McSweeney's online series. He is currently working on a critical prose project exploring form and disjunction in modern poetry.
- Awards: 2024 New Writers Award, Golden Poppy finalist, Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize finalist
His office is located in Wheeler 475, with Spring 2025 office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2:30 PM.
