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Personal bio
Born and educated in England, Nicholas Jenkins has taught at Harvard and at Stanford where he is now an associate professor in the English Department as well as serving as the Faculty Director of Stanford's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. He is the author of the forthcoming The Island: W. H. Auden and the Regeneration of England and is the General Editor of Princeton University Press's "Facing Pages" translation series. He has written essays and reviews for periodicals that include the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and the Yale Review. A recipient of fellowships from the ACLS and from the Stanford Humanities Center, he is also the Literary Executor of the poet, scholar and ballet impresario Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet. Currently teaching |