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After receiving his B.A. from Oxford, Jenkins came to the United States as a Harkness Fellow. He did postgraduate work at Columbia and was then employed as an editor and writer at <em>ARTnews</em> magazine in New York. He received a D.Phil. from Oxford and, after teaching in the Harvard English Department for two years, where he co-directed the "Modernism in its Contexts" seminar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, he joined the Stanford English Department in 1998. Jenkins is currently completing two projects: a critical edition of W.H. Auden's <em>The Double Man</em> (1941) and a book, under contract to Harvard University Press, called <em>The Island: W.H. Auden and the Making of a Post-National Poetry</em>. Using Auden's work of the 1930s and 1940s as a case study, the volume describes a mid-twentieth-century shift from lyrics of poetic nationalism to a poetics of lyric cosmopolitanism. (An essay on this theme: "Writing without 'Roots': Auden, Eliot and Post-National Poetry" was recently published in the collection <em>"Something We Have That They Don't": British and American Poetic Relations Since 1925</em>.) Jenkins has edited a <em>Lincoln Kirstein Reader</em> and co-edited and contributed to three volumes of <em>Auden Studies</em>. He is Series Editor of the Princeton University Press's "Facing Pages" translation series, and he regularly contributes essays and reviews to periodicals that include the <em>London Review of Books</em>, the <em>Times Literary Supplement</em>, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, <em>the New Republic</em>, <em>the New Yorker</em>, and the<em>Yale Review</em>. A recepient of fellowships from the ACLS and from the Stanford Humanities Center, Nicholas Jenkins is Co-Chair of the W.H. 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