Dr Nathaniel Zetter, Pembroke

nmz21@cam.ac.uk

 

Biographical Information

I'm a College Teaching Associate at Selwyn, where I supervise broadly on modern poetry and prose, visual culture, and literary theory. Before joining Selwyn, I was educated at King's College London, and completed my Ph.D. here at Cambridge with a studentship from Peterhouse, on the imaginative connections between war and sport since the late nineteenth century. That project is now the basis for my first monograph, prospectively titled War/Sport: A Modern History.

My research more widely concerns the contingencies between culture and technology under modernity. I am particularly interested in the novel's response to new media forms, the dialogue between literary theory and other disciplines, and the cultural politics of computation.

I teach Practical Criticism and Critical Practice at each level; at Part I, I also teach Paper 7B (1870 – Present), and at Part II, papers 11 (Prose Forms), 12 (Contemporary Writing), 13 (American Literature), 16 (History and Theory of Literary Criticism), and 18 (Visual Culture). I am happy to supervise dissertations in any areas of my teaching or research, but I am particularly keen to receive requests for projects on literary theory and on digital media.

 

Selected Publications