Nathan Brown
- Assistant Professor of English
Davis, CA Office Hours: T 12:00-1:00, W 1:00-2:00
Biography:
M.A., Queen's University, 2002
B.A., Queen's University, 2001
Nathan Brown's research and teaching focus on modernist and contemporary poetry and poetics, science/technology studies, and critical theory. His current book project, The Materials - Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication, examines concepts of form and practices of fabrication in nanoscale materials science and contemporary experimental poetry, updating the context in which poetry might be considered a form of building. He also teaches courses in Science & Technology Studies and the Designated Emphasis Program in Critical Theory.
Publications:
- "The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux." Forthcoming in The Speculative Turn, Ed. Levi Bryant, Graham Harman, and Nick Srnicek (re:press, 2010).
- "Objects that Matter: Olson, Bergvall, and the Poetics of Articulation." Forthcoming in HOW2 (Fall 2009).
- "Immortality by Design." parallax 14.3 (August 2008), 4-20.
- "21st Century Materialism." In Pre-Specifics. Ed. Vera Bühlmann and Martin Wiedmer (JRP Ringier, 2008): 184-193.
- "The Function of Digital Poetry at the Present Time." Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (February 2008).
- "The Politics of Error: An Interview with Shanxing Wang." Jacket 34 (October 2007).
- "The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being." Radical Philosophy. 144 (July/August 2007): 33-44.
- "Needle on the Real: Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication." In Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience. Ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Intellect Books, 2004): 173-190.