Nathan Motulsky

Research Interests

Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Caribbean, Early Modern, Early American, 19th Century American, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies

Biography

Nathan is a PhD student studying literatures of the Americas in the 16th-19th centuries and ecological theory. His research interests include natural history, plantation literatures, and the nighttime.

His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Point, Public Books, The Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. His MA thesis, “‘Impossible for us to sleep’: Nocturnal Ecologies and Modes of Becoming in Leonora Sansay’s 'Secret History,'” is forthcoming from Early American Studies (Spring 2026).