Nathaniel Preston

Writing Specialist
B.A., 1991, Earlham College
M.A, 1994, Ball State University
Ph.D., 1999, University of Tennessee

npreston@utk.edu

Nathaniel Preston began working as Writing Specialist for the law school in 2001. He has taught courses in literature and composition for Tennessee’s English department since 1994 and has served for three years in the Writing Center as a tutor specializing in English as a Second Language. Aside from legal writing, his academic interests include American literary history, Japanese language and culture, and debates surrounding the literature of American Orientalism.

Publications

       Articles:

Whitman’s ‘Shadowy Dwarf’: A Source in Hindu Mythology, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 15 (1998): 185-87.

Recent Professional Presentations and Service

"Both in the School and Out of It: The Writing Coach in the Law School," presented at International Writing Centers Association Conference, Savannah, April 2002.

"‘We Sense a New Age': Social Yoga in W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Princess," presented at 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2002.

“The Power of Place: The Triumph of Memory over Spirit in Ellen Glasgow’s The Ancient Law,” presented at Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, April 2000.

“The Wheel of Life and the Wheel of Dharma: Ellen Glasgow’s Experiment with Buddhism,” presented at American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, May 1999.

Contributing editor, Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments.
Needham, MA; Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999.

Selected Achievements and Affiliations

Supervised/mentored first-year UTK M.A. students, 1996-present.

Member, selection committee for Outstanding New Tutor Award, UTK, 1999-2001.

UTK’s John B. Emperor Fellowship, spring 1998.

Panelist, syllabus design workshop for new instructors, August 1998.

Phi Kappa Phi, UTK chapter.

Phi Beta Kappa, Earlham College chapter