User:Nathaniel Dektor

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. I primarily focus on popular film, British and American novels and poetry, and cultural criticism. My theoretical viewpoint is rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (primarily Adorno and Weber) and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan).

My B.S. and M.S. are in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I minored in music composition and theory and focused on flute performance of 18th century music and jazz piano. I currently perform on bass guitar in Afro-Cuban and funk ensembles. I have substantial course and work experience in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. I have delivered conference papers and published works on René Descartes, Toy Story, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Jumanji, and Eyes Wide Shut (forthcoming), as well as published prose fiction and poetry in Minneapolis and New York City, where I have lived and worked. I have also lived and worked several years in the cities of Baltimore, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC.

I insist on economical, active prose. While I am as prone to dilatory communication as many others, I have taught many composition courses and have extensive experience editing my own and others' prose for directness of expression.

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

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