Nate Windon

Nate Windon is Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University. Before arriving in Cincinnati, he taught at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. He received his B.A. from Messiah University in 2010; his M.A. from the University of Connecticut in 2012; and his Ph.D. from Penn State in 2018.

He teaches courses in American literature pre-1900. In fall 2022 he is offering a course titled “American Revolutions” on the relationship between the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the antebellum revolutions, including slave insurrections and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, that precipitated the Civil War. Future course offerings will include “Varieties of Religious Experience in Early America”; “Early African American Print Culture,”; and “The American Renaissance.” In addition to upper-level courses in pre-1900 American literature, Nate Windon also teaches “Literature and the Moral Imagination” using the literary history of Cincinnati.

He is currently working on the manuscript for his first book, which is about old age and how an aversion to it became embedded in American society across the long nineteenth century.

His scholarship has appeared in American Literature, American Quarterly, Commonplace, and Studies in American Fiction. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through long-term fellowships at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Omohundro Institute. He has received the Norton L. Strange Townsend Fellowship from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan; the Lord Baltimore Fellowship from the Maryland Center for History and Culture; and the C. P. Snow Memorial Trust Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin, as well as a dissertation fellowship from the New England Fellowship Consortium.