Jenkin Benson is a 1st year Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame. Focused on the political and aesthetic interchange between Irish and Welsh writers at the fin-de-siècle, Jenkin principally studies the development of Celtic nationalisms and their expressions in English literature.

His current scholarship investigates tensions between Celtic and British identity that can be found in the work of Welsh writers and examines how Anglo whiteness and Celtic otherness is stylistically negotiated.