User:Nathaniel Dektor

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. I primarily focus on popular film, British and American novels and poetry, and cultural criticism. My theoretical viewpoint is rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (primarily Adorno and Weber) and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan).

My B.S. and M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor are in mathematics, and I have substantial course and work experience in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. I have published works on Descartes, Toy Story, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Jumanji (forthcoming), and Eyes Wide Shut (forthcoming), as well as a short story and poetry in Minneapolis and New York City, where I have lived and worked.

I insist on economical, active prose. While I am as prone to dilatory communication as many others, I have taught many composition courses and have extensive experience editing my own and others' prose for directness of expression.