About us

We are Nathaniel and Trisha, an academic husband-wife duo who both teach English literature at Cambridge University.

For over 17 years combined, we have taught writing and literature at all skill levels — from Harvard and Cambridge undergraduates, to European high schoolers and Chinese middle schoolers. Since 2018, we have also conducted hundreds of Cambridge admissions interviews.

We have a combined 12 years’ experience advising and editing university applications for undergraduate and graduate programs in the U.S. and UK. Our mentorship has helped domestic and international students gain admission to top universities, including Yale, Oxford, Cornell, UCL, and UC Santa Barbara.

Trisha has a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, and a BA from UC Berkeley

She taught at Harvard for over 6 years, and has taught M.A. and Ph.D. students (at the Freie Universität Berlin), high school students (in France), and middle school students (in China). Prior to coming to Cambridge, she gained years of experience professional academic editing, and both undergraduate and graduate applications mentorship for American and Chinese students.

At Cambridge, she teaches both Cambridge undergraduates and exchange students from top U.S. universities. Fluent in French, she has also worked as an academic translator. In 2020, her research was awarded the Richard Stein Prize.

Nathaniel has a Ph.D. in English from Cambridge University, and a BA from King’s College London

He has taught at Cambridge for over 8 years. He has won fellowships for research at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and since 2018, he has conducted hundreds of Cambridge admissions interviews (at Peterhouse, Queens’ College, and Pembroke College).

Having supervised over 400 Cambridge students (and counting), he has also given multiple lecture courses for both Cambridge undergraduates and visiting students from top universities — including Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, Berkeley, USC, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Peking University, and many others. He has over 6 years of experience mentoring both undergraduate and graduate applications for students in Britain and China.