Nathaniel Davis
Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of English
Rue de Rome 1
1700 Fribourg
Biography
At Fribourg I teach courses in English, academic writing, and pedagogy. My research is centered on issues of language, description, style, and technique in modernist and avant-garde literature in English, German, and French. I hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and spent five years teaching English in French universities before coming to Fribourg. I previously served as English Editor for the Chinese academic journal International Comparative Literature (Shanghai Normal University) and Assistant Editor for Dalkey Archive Press.
Research and publications
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Research activities
10 publications
"Translated Style, Language Attrition, and Interlingual Strangeness in Hemingway"
Nathaniel Davis (2023) | Other"'That was thinking in Spanish': Translated Style and Interlingual Strangeness in Hemingway"
Nathaniel Davis, Arts of War and Peace (2023) | Journal article“The Postwar Austrian Experimental Short Prose Form: manuskripte and the Graz Group”
Nathaniel Davis, Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties (2020) | Journal article“Language, Philosophy, and Kulchur: Pound’s Neo-Confucian Neoplatonism”
Nathaniel Davis, Paideuma, A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship (2020) | Journal article“‘The aim: to make this account as complete as possible’: Description, Detail, and Subjectivity in Harry Mathews’s Anti-Autobiographies”
Nathaniel Davis (2019) | Other“Experimental Description and the ‘Surface of Reality’ in John Hawkes's Novels"
Nathaniel Davis (2018) | OtherThe Limits of Literary Language: Linguistic Skepticism and Literary Experiment in Postwar Germany and Austria
Nathaniel Davis (2015) | Thesis“Not a soul in sight!”: Beckett's Fourth Wall
Davis, Journal of Modern Literature (2015) | Journal articleToward a Translation Criticism: John Donne by Antoine Berman (review)
French Forum (2013) | Journal articleTracing Modernism's Secret Theological Pre-history: Ian Cooper's <em>The Near and Distant God</em>
Davis, Journal of Modern Literature (2011) | Journal article