Nathalie Joseph

Nathalie’s love of teaching and analysis has finally won a hard-fought battle over her twin obsessions with handbags and chocolate. Having grown up in Glendale, Professor Joseph earned her BA in Los Angeles, briefly sojourned in Seattle, and earned her PhD in Literature from UCSD. In her classes at USC, she repeatedly leverages different visions of Los Angeles, from “Bladerunner” to the concept of culture-jamming, in order to develop writing prompts for her students. A faculty advisor for Scribe, she looks forward to continuing the online publication’s traditional focus on the thoughts and experiences of Angelenos. Through all of this, she secretly dreams of a second career as a handbag designer or chocolatier.