Nathan Waddell is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book, Moonlighting (Oxford University Press, 2019), assesses Beethoven’s impact on Anglo-American modernist writing. Nathan is currently finishing a book on Wyndham Lewis and fascism, for Princeton University Press, and working on several projects to do with Orwell, his literary hero – these include The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell and George Orwell in Context, for Cambridge University Press. Recent publications in this area include The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the Oxford World’s Classics edition (2021) of Orwell’s underappreciated novel A Clergyman’s Daughter. Nathan sits on the Editorial Board of the academic journal George Orwell Studies and since 2020 has run a student-aimed podcast called Reading Orwell. A Bright Cold Day is his first trade book.
