Nathan Brown received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2008 before beginning his career at UC Davis as Assistant Professor of English. He joined Concordia in 2014 as Canada Research Chair in Poetics, and founded the Centre for Expanded Poetics in 2015. Professor Brown's research moves between literature, philosophy, and the arts, with particular focus on comparative approaches to modernism and on 20th century American poetry. 

His 2021 book, Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique, was awarded Honorable Mention for the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. The book argues that the misleading opposition of speculative and critical approaches to philosophy can be overcome by rethinking the methodological relationship between rationalism and empiricism. Tracing a dialectic of reason and experience through ancient, modern, and contemporary thought, Brown engages with such thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Badiou, and Meillassoux, as well as recent work in the science of metrology and experimental digital photography. 

His 2017 book, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics, studies concepts and ideologies of structure and form traversing practices of material construction in science and experimental poetry. Reviews have appeared in Boundary2 Online, Radical Philosophy, and elsewhere. 

His most recent books are a critical study titled 

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