Nathaniel Williams
مدرس · Science and Technical Communication
University of California, Davisمعرفی
Nathaniel Williams is a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, joining in 2012. His academic roles include teaching business and technical writing, science writing, journalism, and special topics. He researches the history of technology, American literature, religious studies, and science fiction.
- Education: Ph.D. in English (University of Kansas), M.A. and B.A. in English and Communication (Truman State University).
His research interests span Science and Technical Communication, American Literature and Culture, Science Fiction, and Genre and Rhetoric. He authored Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America (2018) and published scholarly articles in American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Utopian Studies. His speculative fiction appears in Fantasy Magazine and other outlets.
He received Honorable Mention for the Norman Foerster Prize (2011) and served as Academic-Track Programming Coordinator for the 2018 World Science Fiction Convention. He is Associate Editor of the Mark Twain Annual.
Prior to academia, Williams worked as a technical writer, creating software manuals and conducting statewide trainings for government agencies. He also contributed to AboutSF, an educational outreach project.
