Nathaniel Wachtel is a second year PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He works on environmental humanities, energy humanities, nineteenth-century German philosophy and twentieth-century literature and film. His writing often focuses depictions of previous energy transitions in literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prior to coming to UT, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York, where he wrote an undergraduate English honors thesis on the novels of Samuel Beckett. While living in New York he served as an editorial assistant for Fiction magazine and as an editorial intern at Columbia University Press. He has several years work experience in solar and renewable energy certificate sales. He is currently co-chair of the E3W Sequels Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as a TA for E316, a survey class on American Literature and E310S, a class on the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Outside of his academic work he enjoys watching movies, sightreading chamber music, bar trivia, collecting mid-century historical and political memorabilia, running and pick-up basketball.
