Bio
Born in England and educated at Oxford, Nicholas Jenkins came to the United States as a Harkness Fellow. He has taught English at Harvard University, and now teaches at Stanford.
He is currently completing a volume titled The Island: W.H. Auden and the Making of Post-National Poetry and a critical edition of Auden's book The Double Man (1941). His essays and reviews include contributions to the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the TLS, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Yale Review, Notes and Queries and Vogue.
Jenkins is co-editor, with Katherine Bucknell, of the "Auden Studies" series (Oxford University Press), editor of Alan Ansen's The Table-Talk of W. H. Auden, and co-chair of the W. H. Auden Society.
He is also the Series Editor of the Princeton University Press translation series "Facing Pages", which most recently published Landscape with Rowers, English versions of modern Dutch poetry made by J. M. Coetzee, and After Every War, translations by Eavan Boland from the German of 20th-century women poets.
In addition to the Commonwealth Fund, he has held fellowships from the ACLS and the Stanford Humanities Center. Nicholas Jenkins acts as literary executor of the papers and copyrights of the scholar, critic, poet, and ballet-impresario Lincoln Kirstein, who was one of W. H. Auden's closest friends in New York for over 30 years.
He lives with his family in Silicon Valley.