Nate received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Indiana University at Bloomington in 2008. His dissertation, "Dreams of Influence: Embodied Reading in Late Medieval and Renaissance English Literature," traces the literary depiction of dreams from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser. His articles have appeared in the John Donne Journal, Medievalia et Humanistica, and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching; and a co-edited collection, "Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid," is forthcoming from Pedagogy.