Nathan Brown is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham UP, 2017). With Petar Milat, he is the coeditor of Poiesis (MaMa, 2017) and is presently completing a second book titled Rationalist Empiricism: Toward a Theory of Speculative Critique.