Nicolas Turner is a PhD candidate at Leiden University. His research focuses on Jewish American literature and intellectual production in the United States, examining the relationship between shifting conceptions of Jewishness and the construction, institutionalization, and problematization of ideas of racial, gender, and sexual identity between 1945 and the present. In addition to an MA (cum laude) in North American Studies from Leiden University, Nicolas also has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. Nicolas is currently editor-in-chief of the Netherlands American Studies Review, the journal of NASA.