Nathaniel Williams was born in Kansas City and currently operates out of California, teaching science/technical writing and literature at UC Davis. He wrote Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America (U of Alabama Press, 2018), a book about science fiction’s influence on 19th-century American empire and religion. He’s the Associate Editor for The Mark Twain Annual. His research has appeared in American Literature, Utopian Studies and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Speculative Fiction Writers Workshop at the University of Kansas and an associate member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has been (and sporadically continues to be) a grant writer and musician.
His full academic info is in the vitae below:
Curriculum Vitae (PDF, opens in new tab) updated May 2024
If you’re wanting to interview Nate about music or have him on a non-academic panel, you can see his informal bio:
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