Nathan is a second-year Ph.D. candidate from Waukesha, Wisconsin. His research interests include mechanical investigations into the literary narrative (in short, how fiction works) and the nexus of aesthetics and politics in 20th - and 21 st -century Slavic literatures. Authors of particular interest include Sasha Sokolov, Danilo Kiš, and Mikhail Shishkin.
Nathan earned a BA in Russian from Middlebury College in 2013 and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University in 2017. As an undergraduate, he studied in Irkutsk, Russia, and later returned to the same city on a Fulbright Research Scholarship to research and translate the early prose writings of Alexander Vampilov. While at Harvard, Nathan has also pursued a course of study in German language and culture.
