Nicholas Jenkins teaches 20th-century culture and literature at Stanford University. He has been an editor and writer at "ARTnews" magazine in New York, a codirector of the Modernism in Its Contexts seminar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, and currently edits the Poetry in Translation series for Princeton University Press. He regularly contributes essays and reviews to periodicals including the "London Review of Books," the "Times Literary Supplement," "New York Times Book Review," the "New Republic," the "New Yorker," and the "Yale Review,"