Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021), The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017), and Baudelaire's Shadow: On Poetic Determination (forthcoming from Fordham, 2026). His translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil was published by Verso in 2025.

Professor Brown is currently working on a book project titled The Irony of Ground: Studies in the Poetics of Romantic Modernity. Setting out from the suturing of philosophy to literature by the Jena Romantics, chapters work through case studies in poetry, music, architecture, and painting to situate the enduring importance of romanticism as the interrogation of contradictions attendant upon the positing of subjective, epistemological, artistic, and political foundations.