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PUBLICATIONS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOKS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), part of the Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters series. Series Editor, Marilyn Gaull. Nominated for the John Burroughs Medal and the American Publishers Prose Prize (a style award). Issued in paperback, August 2012.<\/p>\n

The Revolutionary \u201cI\u201d: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin\u2019s, 1998), part of the \u201cRomanticism in Perspective\u201d series, ed. Marilyn Gaull and Stephen Prickett.<\/p>\n

The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Tuscaloosa & London: U of Alabama P, 1987) 256 pp. Chapters from this book have been reprinted in\u00a0The Critical Perspective<\/em>, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1989), pp. 5234-38, 5447-54.<\/p>\n

As Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walden, or Life in the Woods<\/em>:,\u00a0An Ecocritical Edition,\u00a0<\/em>by Henry David Thoreau. (Beckleysville: G. W. Zouck, 2017), part of the\u00a0Voice for an Optimistic America<\/em>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n

Romantic Natural Histories: William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin<\/em>,\u00a0and Others<\/em><\/a>, New Riverside Editions (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).<\/p>\n

HYPERTEXT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Romantic Natural History<\/em>:\u00a01750-1859<\/em><\/a>: A hypertext project designed to survey the relationship between literature and natural history in the century before Darwin\u2019s\u00a0On the Origin of Species<\/em>. The site has been recognized for excellence by the BBC (\u201cEducation Web\u201d),\u00a0Romantic Circles<\/em>\u00a0(University of Maryland) and\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cCircuits\u201d). See: http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/~nicholsa\/Romnat\/romnat1.htm<\/p>\n

“After the Hawk,” “That Hum and Buzz,” “Fantastic Beauty in the Front Yard,” “Raptors and Riparians,” “Songbirds at Creekside,” “Death from Above–Life Everywhere,” “Crazy Cardinal,” “Snow Baths,” “Urbanature–The Roost and Urbanatural Roosting.”<\/a> The Roost: Thoreau Farm Blog<\/em>. Invited blog-posts at Thoreau Farm Birthplace, Concord, Massachusetts. February, 2014-present: http:\/\/thoreaufarm.org\/?s=Ashton+Nichols<\/p>\n

ARTICLES & ESSAYS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“\u2018Over the Sea to Skye\u2019: Dr. Johnson and Wordsworth on Dun Cann,” Session series,\u00a0Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing on the Trail<\/em>, The Wordsworth Circle<\/em> (TWC<\/em>), XLIX 2018: forthcoming<\/p>\n

“Henry David Builds His Hut,” in What Would Henry Do? Essays for the 21st Century–Feature Essay by President Jimmy Carter.<\/em> Ed. Thoreau Farm Trust. Concord: Thoreau Farm Trust, Inc., 2017: 105-09.<\/p>\n

“Ecocriticism and Environmental Approaches,” chapter in Teaching Victorian Literature in the 21st Century: A Guide to Pedagogy<\/em>. Ed. Jen Cadwallader and Laurence Mazzeno. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017: 315-329.<\/p>\n

“Home to Roost: Generations Enjoy a Mountaintop Cabin,” Cabin Living <\/em>(June 2017): 19<\/p>\n

“‘<\/em>Humanist Joy’: Urbanature in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney,”\u00a0Festschrift<\/em> for Robert Langbaum, Ed. Michael Pickard.\u00a0The Wordsworth Circle<\/em> (TWC<\/em>) XLVII:2, 2016: 100-04.<\/p>\n

\u201cCelebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman World,\u201d Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives<\/em>. Larry Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison, eds. London: Ashgate Press, 2016: 47-63.<\/p>\n

“Fostered by Fear: Affect and Environment in Romantic Nature Writing.” Wordsworth and the Green Romantics:\u00a0<\/em>Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century<\/i><\/a>. Ed. Lisa Ottum and Seth Reno, eds.\u00a0Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2016:<\/em> 146-64.<\/p>\n

“Assateague Island Memories,” Vocabula Review. <\/em>Winner of\u00a03rd-place in the Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest <\/em>14:9 (September 2012: online only).<\/p>\n

“Wordsworth as Environmental ‘Nature’ Writer,” Critical Insights:\u00a0Nature and the Environment<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0Ed. Scott Slovic. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing, 2012): 100-121.<\/p>\n

“Dialogical Theology as Politics in Mongo Beti, Wewere Liking, and Chinua Achebe,”\u00a0Postcolonial Text<\/em><\/a>\u00a05.1 (2009): 1-16.<\/p>\n

“Thoreau and Urbanature: From Walden to Ecocriticism,”\u00a0Neohelicon<\/em>\u00a036.2 (December 2009): 1-9.<\/p>\n

“American Nature Writing” [in Chinese].\u00a0Ecological Literature<\/em>. Beijing: Peoples’s Publishing House: 2009: 170-203.<\/p>\n

“Overview of American Ecocriticism” [in Chinese].\u00a0Ecological Literature<\/em>. Beijing: Peoples’s Publishing House: 2009: 203-235.<\/p>\n

“Thoreau for our Time.”\u00a0Introduction\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0Walden, or Life in the Woods. Voice for an Optimistic America<\/em>. Brook Farm Revival Series. Beckleysville, MD.: G. W. Zouck Publishing, 2008.<\/p>\n

“Wilding and Roosting,” “Romantic Natural History,” “Emerson and Infinity,” “Urbanature.”\u00a0Romantic Circles<\/em>\u00a0Blog Posts (Ecocriticism)<\/a>. Invited Contributions. [http:\/\/www.rc.umd.edu\/blog_rc\/]: October-December, 2008.<\/p>\n

“Emerson for a New Era .”\u00a0Introduction\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0Essays of the Young Emerson: Voice for an Optimistic America<\/em>. Brook Farm Revival Series. Beckleysville, MD.: G. W. Zouck Publishing, 2008.<\/p>\n

“La metaphore du passage de la frontiere dans les oeuvres de J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie et Derek Walcott.”\u00a0D’une Frontiere a L’autre: Migrations, Passages, Imaginaires<\/em>. Ed. Jean-Francois Berdah, Anny Bloch-Raymond et Colette Zytnicki. Collection << Meridiennes >>. Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail: CNRS, 2007.<\/p>\n

“Face to Face with Wild Dolphins,”\u00a0Sea Stories: An International Journal of Art and Writing<\/em>,\u00a0Blue Ocean Institute, Hibernal 2006\/07: http:\/\/www.seastories.org\/<\/p>\n

“An Empire of Exotic Nature: William Blake’s Botanic and Zoomorphic Imagery,”\u00a0The Reception of Blake in the Orient. Ed. Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki (London: Continuum Press, 2006): 121-134.<\/p>\n

“Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin,”<\/a>\u00a0Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0149:3 (September 2005): 304-15.<\/p>\n

“The Hypertext Monograph: An Alternative Model for Scholarly Publishing,”\u00a0\u00a0International Journal of the Book<\/em>\u00a0(Melbourne, Australia: Commonground, 2005): 53-55.<\/p>\n

“Humanities Scholarship and Teaching in Hyperspace: A Current Appraqisal” International Journal of the Humanities<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Melbourne, Australia: Commonground, 2005): 325-30.<\/p>\n

“Nature as Narrative: Bartram, Darwin, Dillard, Matthiessen,”\u00a0Festschrift for Helio Osvaldo Alves<\/em>\u00a0(Minho, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Human\u00edsticos, 2005): \u00a0221-31.<\/p>\n

“Copperheads in Carlisle: A Hometown Natural History,”\u00a0Nature Study: A Journal of Environmental Education and Interpretation<\/em>, 51.1\/2 (2003): 30-36.<\/p>\n

\u201cKilling a Rattlesnake?\u201d\u00a0ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment<\/em>, 8.2 (Summer 2001): 233-37.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Love\/s of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Romantic Praxis<\/em>: Romantic Circles Web-Site, \u201cRomanticism and Ecology,\u201d ed. James McKusick: http:\/\/www.rc.umd.edu\/praxis\/, (2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cCognitive and Pragmatic Linguistic Moments: Literary Epiphany in Thomas Pynchon and Seamus Heaney,\u201d in\u00a0Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany<\/em>, ed. Wim Tigges (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999): 467-80. Portions of this essay are reprinted in\u00a0Thomas Pynchon: Bloom’s Major Novelists<\/em>, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003): 133-38.<\/p>\n

“The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History,”<\/a>\u00a0The Wordsworth Circle<\/em>, special issue on \u201cRomantic Ecology,\u201d 28.3 (1997): 130-36.<\/p>\n

\u201cElectronic Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies: A Provisional Appraisal,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Studies<\/em>, 11 (1997): 203-214 [http:\/\/www.fandm.edu\/Departments\/English\/Ohara\/19thCStudies.html]<\/p>\n

\u201cMumbo Jumbo: Mungo Park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa,\u201d in\u00a0Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834<\/em>, ed. Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 93-113.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018If there is one god, fine, there will be others\u2019: Dialogical Theology in Achebe,\u201d in\u00a0Religion and Literature in Postcolonial Cultures<\/em>, ed. J. Scott (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 159-170.<\/p>\n

\u201cEcology, Gender, and Revolution in News from Nowhere,\u201d William Morris: A Celebration of World Citizenship, Instituto de Letras e Ciencas Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal,\u00a0Actas do Coloquio<\/em>\u00a0(Braga, 1996), pp. 15-30.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonviolent Protest and Liberationist Sexuality: The Legacy of Blake and Shelley in News From Nowhere,\u201d\u00a0William Morris Society Journal<\/em>\u00a0(London) 10.4 (Spring 1994): 20-28.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonologue,\u201d \u201cDialogue,\u201d\u00a0Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics<\/em>, ed. Premiger et al, (Princeton University Press, 1993); 290-92, 798-800. These entries have also been selected for inclusion in\u00a0The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms<\/em>, ed. T. V. F. Brogan (Princeton University Press, 1994); 52-53, 193-94.<\/p>\n

\u201cColonizing Consciousness: Culture and Identity in Walcott\u2019s Another Life and Wordsworth\u2019s Prelude,\u201d\u00a0Imagination, Emblems and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity<\/em>, ed. Helen Ryan (Bowling Green: BGSU Press, 1993), 173-191.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revolutionary \u2018I\u2019: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation,\u201d\u00a0Bucknell Review: Wordsworth in Context<\/em>\u00a036:1, 1992, 66-84.<\/p>\n

\u201cFragment,\u201d \u201cPrimitivism,\u201d \u201cThe Real Language of Men,\u201d\u00a0Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s<\/em>, ed. Laura Dabundo (New York: Garland, 1992), 202-03, 469-70, 484-85.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Look Who\u2019s Talking\u2019: Dialogic Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom,\u201d [co-author Margaret Garrett],\u00a0ADE Bulletin\u00a0<\/em>(MLA), 99 (Fall 1991): 34-38.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Politics of Point of View in Teaching Things Fall Apart,\u201d\u00a0Approaches to Teaching\u00a0<\/em>Things Fall Apart,<\/em>\u00a0ed. Bernth Lindfors (New York: MLA, 1991): 52-57.<\/p>\n

\u201cDialogism in the Dramatic Monologue: The Example of Browning,\u201d\u00a0Victorians Institute Journal<\/em>\u00a017 (1990): 29-51.<\/p>\n

\u201cSilencing the Other: The Discourse of Domination in Nineteenth-Century Exploration Narratives,\u201d\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Studies<\/em>\u00a03 (1989): 1-22.<\/p>\n

\u201cCambridge University,\u201d \u201cPositivism,\u201d \u201cYeats, W. B.,\u201d\u00a0Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia<\/em>, ed. Sally Mitchell (New York: Garland Press, 1988): 245-46, 1240, 1784.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Epiphanic Trance Poem: Why Tennyson is Not a Mystic,\u201d\u00a0Victorian Poetry<\/em>\u00a024 (1986): 131-148.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoycezseasidegirls: Gretta, Bertha, Molly, and Nora–All from Gibralway?\u201d\u00a0Biography<\/em>\u00a08.4 (1985): 336-352.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrowning\u2019s Modernism: The Infinite Moment as Epiphany,\u201d\u00a0Browning Institute Studies<\/em>\u00a011 (1983): 81-99.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Will Sprawl\u2019 in the \u2018Ugly Actual\u2019: The Positive Grotesque in Browning,\u201d\u00a0Victorian Poetry<\/em>\u00a021 (1983): 157-171.<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards \u2018Spots of Time\u2019: Visionary Dreariness in \u2018An Evening Walk\u2019,\u201d\u00a0The Wordsworth Circle<\/em>\u00a014 (1983): 233-37.<\/p>\n

BOOK REVIEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(JBS) <\/em>Journal of British Studies, <\/em>North American Conference on British Studies, Cambridge, 2017-): Alan Bewell, Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History<\/em> (2017)<\/p>\n

RES<\/em> (The Review of English Studies,\u00a0<\/em>Oxford, 2015-): Chase Pielak, Memorializing Animals During the Romantic Period\u00a0<\/em>(2015)<\/a><\/p>\n

(NCL) Nineteenth-Century Literature (2013-): Fran\u00e7ois Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michael Granger, eds.,\u00a0Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon (2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

(ERR) European Romantic Review <\/em>(2013-): Anahid Nersessian, Utopia Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment<\/em> & Heidi C. M. Scott, Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century <\/em>(2016); Theresa M. Kelley, Clandestine Marriages: Botany & Romantic Culture; <\/em>Janelle A. Schwartz, Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism\u00a0<\/em>(2013)<\/p>\n

Review 19 <\/em>NBOL<\/em>: New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century<\/em>)(2012-): Katey Castellano, The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism: 1790-1837 <\/em>(2015); Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields, eds., Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 <\/em>(2012); Scott Hess,\u00a0William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2012);\u00a0Gillen D’Arcy Wood,\u00a0Tambora: The Eruption\u00a0that Changed the\u00a0World<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2015)<\/p>\n

Nineteenth-Century Contexts\u00a0<\/em>(2005-): Noah Heringman,\u00a0Romantic Rocks: Aesthetic Geology.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Metascience\u00a0<\/em>[Kluwer, Netherlands] (2005-): C. M. Smith and Robert Arnott,\u00a0The Genius of Erasmus Darwin.<\/em><\/div>\n

Sciences & Theology News\u00a0<\/em>(2005-): Keith Thomson,\u00a0Before Darwin: Reconciling God with Nature<\/em>\u00a0(published in England as\u00a0The Watch on the Heath: Science and Religion Before Darwin<\/em>)<\/p>\n

(TWC) The Wordsworth Circle<\/em>\u00a0(2000-): Dewey W. Hall, Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 <\/em>(2015); Noah Heringman, ed.,\u00a0Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History<\/em>; Louise Henson et al, eds.,\u00a0Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media<\/em>; Eric Wilson,\u00a0Emerson\u2019s Sublime Science<\/em>; Richard Yeo,\u00a0Encyclopedic Visions<\/em>; Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine, eds.,\u00a0Books and the Sciences in History<\/em>; Alan Richardson,\u00a0British Romanticism and the S<\/em>cience of \u00a0the Mind<\/em>; Judith Hawley, Richard Hamblyn, Charlotte Grant, eds.,\u00a0Literature and Science, 1660-1834<\/em>:\u00a0Earthly Powers<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Flora\u00a0<\/em>(2 vols.); Judith Hawley, ed.,\u00a0Literature and Science, 1660-1834<\/em>, Part 2: Fauna, Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry (4 vols.); Nancy Easterlin, A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation<\/em>;\u00a0Dewey W. Hall, Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study: 1789-1912<\/em><\/p>\n

The Pater Newsletter<\/em>\u00a0(1999-): Martin Bidney,\u00a0Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning<\/em><\/p>\n

(SHR) Southern Humanities Review<\/em>\u00a0(1985-): Carol T. Christ,\u00a0Victorian and Modern Poetics<\/em>; Jerome H. Buckley,\u00a0The Turning Key<\/em>; Paul John Eakin,\u00a0Fictions in Autobiography<\/em>; John McGowan,\u00a0Representation and Revelation<\/em>; J. M. Coetzee,\u00a0Foe<\/em>; Christopher Ricks, ed.,\u00a0Oxford Book of Victorian Verse<\/em>; Anne Mellor, ed.,\u00a0Romanticism and Feminism<\/em>; Salman Rushdie,\u00a0East, West<\/em>; Peter Ackroyd,\u00a0Blake<\/em>; Richard Holmes,Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834<\/em>; Yopie Prins,\u00a0Victorian Sappho<\/em>; John Worthen,\u00a0Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802;\u00a0<\/em>Bongasu Tanla Kishani,\u00a0A Basket of Kola Nuts (Poems)<\/em><\/p>\n

LECTURES, READINGS & PRESENTATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“\u2018Over the Sea to Skye\u2019: Dr. Johnson and Wordsworth on Dun Cann,” Session\u00a0Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing on the Trail<\/em>, Modern Language Association (MLA) Meeting, New York, NY, January 2018 (read by a colleague), also Session Presider<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Invitation to be an “Organizing Committee Member for the Pollution Control 2016 conference.”\u00a0Promoting Global Health through Pollution Control & Sustainable Environment<\/em>, April 25-26, 2016 at Dubai, UAE. (unable to attend because of conflicting activities).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Civilized Skylarks to Socialized Nightingales: Urbanature in Shelley and Keats,\u201d panel\u00a0Romantic Ecocriticism: Thinking Forward<\/i>, MLA Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. January 2016.<\/p>\n

“Writer-in-Residence.” The Hill School<\/a>. Pottstown, PA. 7-10 January 2015.<\/p>\n

“American Transcendentalism and the Natural World.” Brandywine River Museum of Art. Charles Burchfield Exhibit Lecture. October 29, 2014<\/p>\n

“Urbanatural Roosting<\/em>: Reading and Book Signing.” Chatham University<\/a>. MFA in Creative Writing Program; Pittsburgh, PA, January 2014<\/p>\n

“Luce Asia Faculty \u00a0Colloquium with Fa-Ti Fan,” East Asian Studies Program, Dickinson, Carlisle, PA, November 2013<\/p>\n

“Author Meets Critics Panel: with Downing Cless, Tufts University, and Jan Hagens, Yale University.” Comparative Drama Conference<\/em>. Pier V. Baltimore, MD, April 2013<\/p>\n

“Bridging the Divide: Nature in Our Cities and Our Minds,” Virginia Festival of the Book<\/em>.<\/a> University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 2013<\/p>\n

“Urbanatural Roosting: A New Nature for Our Time,” Brown College Views Lecture Series <\/em>(w\/Winona LaDuke and Paul Sutter), Ivy Creek Nature Preserve, Ivy, VA, March 2013<\/p>\n

“Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Sustainability Authors.” From the Outside In: Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and Suburbs<\/em>, Hofstra University, March 2013 (invited presentation; unable to attend because of rescheduled job candidate interview)<\/p>\n

“From Wild Badgers to Human Beasts: John Clare and the Question of Nonhuman Nature,” John Clare: Nature and the Self<\/em>, The John Clare Society of North America, Modern Language Association (MLA), Boston, MA, January 2013<\/p>\n

“The Sublime Romantic Sciences: Animals, Plants, and Beyond,” in “Romantic Sciences: Crises and Resolutions.” Catastrophes: The 2012 International Conference on Romanticism<\/em>, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, November 2012 (invited, unable to attend because of Hurricane Sandy; paper contents delivered by a colleague from Boston College)<\/p>\n

\u201cRomantic Natural History: A New View of Poetry and Science,\u201d 35th Annual Croll Lecture, Gettysburg College<\/a>. Gettysburg, PA, October 2012<\/p>\n

“Transcendentalism: Sources and Influences,” “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosophy and Society in a New Nation,” “Henry David Thoreau: Poet and Prophet of Walden Pond,” “The Impact of Transcendentalism from the 19th to the 21st Centuries,” Smithsonian Institution<\/a>, Associates Program lecture series, Washington, DC, July 2012<\/p>\n

“James Joyce’s Cognitive Epiphanies: A 21st-Century Perspective,” International James Joyce Symposium<\/em>, Retrospective session on “Epiphanic Joyce”: Morris Beja, respondent. Dublin, Ireland, June 2012<\/p>\n

“Romantic Natural History: Literature and Science in the Century Before Darwin’s\u00a0Origin<\/em>\u00a0(1859),” Life and Literature<\/em> Conference. Field Museum. Poster Session. Chicago, IL, November 2011<\/p>\n

“Beyond Romantic Open Spaces: Social Justice and the American Idea of Wilderness,”\u00a0Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice,\u00a0and Social Ecology (SEEJSE) with the\u00a0International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP). Philadelphia, PA,\u00a0October 2011 (invited, essay read by a colleague)<\/p>\n

“A Sustainable Course on Sustainability,” Curriculum and Co-Curricular Education, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (ASSHE), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2011<\/p>\n

“Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting,” English Department and Miller Worley Center for the Environment; co-hosted by Weissman Center and Dean of Faculty,\u00a0\u00a0Mount Holyoke College,\u00a0South Hadley, MA, October 2010<\/p>\n

“Transcendentalism and American Literature,” Invited Lecture for British and Amercian Studies Faculty Members at Japanese Universities: Nanzan, Kyoto, Kinjo Gakuin. Nagoya, Japan, March 2010<\/p>\n

“Emerson, Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism,” Invited Lecture for M.A. and B.A. Students at Nanzan University. Nagoya, Japan, March 2010<\/p>\n

“Thoreau and Urbanature: From Walden to Ecocriticism,” Beyond Thoreau: American and International Responses to Nature<\/em>. Fulbright Commission and Tsinghua University. Beijing, China, October 2008<\/p>\n

“Encomium for Alan Richardson.” Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, December 2008<\/p>\n

“The Artist as Ornithologist: John James Audubon and Romantic Natural History,” Romanticism and Naturalism Symposium (keynote address). Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn University, November 2007<\/p>\n

“Henry David Thoreau” and “Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson,” Nanzan University Study of the U.S. Carlisle, Pennsylvania, August 2007, August 2008<\/p>\n

“The Third Partner: Creating Hypertext Connections in Humanities Classrooms,” Technology, Knowledge and Society, New Hall, Cambridge, England, January 2007<\/p>\n

“Dialogical Theology as Politics in Mongo Beti, Were Were Liking and Chinua Achebe,” Conference on Religion and Political Power, Djunega Palace, Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa, January 2006<\/p>\n

“Technological Tools in the Classroom: Listening to Student Users,” Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society,\u00a0 Hyderabad, India, December 2005<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hypertext Monograph: An Alternative Model for Scholarly Publishing,\u201d International Conference on the Future of the Book: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era, Beijing, China, August 2004<\/p>\n

“Humanities Scholarship and Teaching in Hyperspace: A Current Appraisal,” New Directions in the Humanities,” Future\/Human, Monash University Centre in Prato (Tuscany), Italy, July 2004<\/span><\/h3>\n

“Crossing the Line: The Border as Metaphor in J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, and Derek Walcott,”\u00a0Passer\/Depasser Les Frontieres<\/em>\u00a0(To Cross and Transcend Boundaries<\/em>), \u00a0L’\u00c9quipe Diasporas, Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France, May 2004<\/p>\n

“Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin,”\u00a0Science, Art and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century<\/em>, American Philosophical Society AGM, Philadelphia, April 2004<\/span><\/p>\n

“Thoreau’s\u00a0Walden<\/em>\u00a0and American Transcendentalism,” The Teaching Company, Chantilly, Virginia, January 2004<\/span><\/p>\n

“An Empire of Exotic Nature: Blake’s Botanic and Zoomorphic Imagery,”<\/span>\u00a0International William Blake Conference, “Blake in the Orient,” Kyodai Kaikan, Kyoto University, Japan, December 2003<\/p>\n

“The Natural Historian as Traveler: Nature as Narrative from Bartram to Matthiessen,” Travel Narratives Conference, CEA–Caribbean Chapter, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, February 2003<\/p>\n

“Poison Trees and Burning Tygers: Romantic Orientalism and the Discourse of Natural History,” Romantic Orientalism Conference, University of Wales (Aberystwyth), Gregynog, July 2002<\/p>\n

\u201cSwamp Dweller and Other Poems,\u201d Lyrics and Land, (ASLE) Association of the Study of Literature and Environment Symposium, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, October 2001<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Last Sturgeon: A Postmodern \u2018Fable\u2019,\u201d 8th International Congress of the Beast Fable Society (BFS), Marrakesh, Morocco, July 2001<\/p>\n

\u201cA Romantic Natural History from 1750-1859: Scholarship and Teaching in Hyperspace,\u201d Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), U of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, June 2001<\/p>\n

\u201cNarrative, Story-Telling, and Trial Advocacy,\u201d Dickinson School of Law\u2013Penn State University, Third-Year Advocacy II Class, March 2001<\/p>\n

\u201cElectronic Romantic Natural Histories: From Erasmus Darwin to Charles Darwin,\u201d Associazione Italo-Britannica, Bologna, Italy, March 2000<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature,\u201d American Conference on Romanticism (ACR), Indiana University, Bloomington, November 1999<\/p>\n

\u201cRomantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Nineteenth-Century Spectacle,\u201d<\/a> Nineteenth-Century Spectacles, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), Rutgers University\/Philadelphia, March 1999<\/p>\n

\u201cHyping the Hypertext: Scholarship and the Limits of Technology,\u201d<\/a> NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism), UMass\/Boston College, November 1996. Available on WWW at http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/publications\/keats-shelley\/nichols.htm<\/p>\n

\u201cEcology, Gender, and Revolution in News from Nowhere,\u201d William Morris: A Celebration of World Citizenship, Instituto de Letras e Ciencas Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, Keynote Speech, April 1996. Published under the same title in Actas do Coloquio (Braga, 1996), pp. 15-30<\/p>\n

\u201c(Re)Designing the Nineteenth-Century: Technology and Teaching–CD-Rom Resources,\u201d Nineteenth-Century Design, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Miami, April 1996<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam Morris\u2019s Materialist Romanticism,\u201d William Morris Society, London, April 1995<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching the New Romanticisms,\u201d Norwich City College, Norwich, England, February 1995<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legacy of Blake and Shelley in News from Nowhere,\u201d William Morris Conference, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, England, July 1990<\/p>\n

\u201cWordsworth as \u2018Wordsworth!\u2019 in \u2018There was a boy\u2019,\u201d Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, Cumbria, August 1990<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revolutionary \u2018I\u2019: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation,\u201d Revolutionary Romanticism Conference, Bucknell University, April 1990<\/p>\n

\u201cPorphyria\u2019s Dubious Lover and the Dying Bishop\u2019s Tomb: Browning\u2019s Dialogical Imagination,\u201d Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Politics of Point-of-View: Things Fall Apart in the Undergraduate Classroom,\u201d MLA, Washington, D.C., December 1989<\/p>\n

\u201cDialogism in the Dramatic Monologue: Suppressed Voices in Browning,\u201d NEMLA,\u00a0 University of Delaware, March 1989<\/p>\n

\u201cSilencing the Other: Discourses of Domination in Victorian Exploration Narratives,\u201d SENCSA, Georgetown University, April 1988<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Epiphanic Mode: Wordsworth, Pater, Joyce,\u201d Session Organizer, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1987<\/p>\n

\u201cPhenomenology or Theology? The Tension Between Perception and Faith in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins,\u201d The Victorians Institute, William and Mary College, October 1986<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Poet as Modernist Magus in The Ring and the Book,\u201d Browning Conference, Southwestern College, April 1986<\/p>\n

\u201cVoices in Dialogue: The Value of Post-Colonial Literature,\u201d Honors Lyceum, Auburn University, March 1986<\/p>\n

\u201cAutobiographical Epiphanies: Yeats as Artificer of the Great Moment,\u201d W. B. Yeats Symposium, West Chester University, October 1985<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Why Should My Reflections Perpetually Centre on Myself\u2019: Godwinian Autobiography in\u00a0Caleb Williams<\/em>,\u201d Wake Forest University, March 1985<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards \u2018Spots of Time\u2019: Visionary Dreariness in \u2018An Evening Walk\u2019,\u201d Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, Cumbria, July 1983<\/p>\n

ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dickinson College: Journal of Ecosystems and Wildlife Management<\/em>, Editorial Board Member, Gavin Publishers, Lisle, IL 2018-; Presidential Commission on Environmental Sustainability (PCES), 2016-; Baird Fellows, Selection Committee, 2014-; Rose-Walters Environmental Activism Prize Selection Committee, 2010-; Department Chair, Environmental Studies and Environmental Science, 2012-13; Living in A World of Limits<\/em>, Faculty Seminar (Clarke Forum and CSE), 2012-13; Resource Group on the Future of Faculty and Academic Program, 2012-; Climate Change Curriculum Task Force (NASA Grant: “Cooling the Liberal Arts\u00a0Curriculum”), 2010-2012; Center for Sustainability (CSE) Steering Committee, 2011-2016; The Wordsworth Circle<\/em>, Editorial Review Board, 2012-; Faculty Personnel Committee (FPC), 2006-2009, (Chair of FPC, 2008-09); Editorial Review Board: Literature and Language: (Scientific Journals International<\/em>), 2007-; Book proposal reviewer, University of Minnesota Press, 2009-, University of Chicago Press, 2006-; Evaluator for 3rd edition of Frankenstein<\/em>, Bedford\/St. Martin’s, 2006-; Manuscript Reviewer,\u00a0Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em>\u00a0(U Penn), 2005-; Editorial Reviewer, Broadview Press, 2005-; Associate Editor,\u00a0International Journal of the Humanities<\/em>, 2004-; Manuscript reviewer for\u00a0Papers on Language and Literature<\/em>, 2004-; Chair, Department of English, 2001-03; Presidential Commission on Diversity at Dickinson; 2003-05; Co-Founder and Director, Dickinson in the Galapagos, 2001-03; Reader for Cornell University Press, 2003-; Reviewer for “Under the Sign of Nature” series, University Press of Virginia, 2002-; Advisory Board Member, Environs Environmental Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, 2002-; Contributor, BBC (London) Natural History Radio Program \u201cBlithe Spirits\u201d(5): Mammals, Lower Creatures, Pets, Monsters, 2001; All-College Committee on Enrollment Management (2001-03); Bologna Advisory Group, 2000-04; British Isles Group, 2000-03; Associate Dean of the College, 1998-99; Editorial reviewer for St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1999-; Board of Governors of the\u00a0 Dickinsonian, 1998-99; Chair, Department of English, 1997-8; Admissions Coordinator (Humanities), 1997-8; Marketing Task Force, 1997-98; Research and Development Committee, 1996-9; Nominations Committee, 1997-8; Editorial referee for\u00a0Style<\/em>, 1998-; Electronic Resources Review Editor,\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Studies<\/em>, 1996-98; Manuscript Reader, Bucknell U Press, 1996, 1994; External Evaluator (tenure), U of New Orleans, 1995; Dickinson Humanities Program in England, On-Campus Advisor 1992-4, Director of Dickinson Programs in England (Humanities and Science), 1994-5; General Education Committee, 1989-92; General Education Subcommittee on Writing, 1989-92, Chair 1991-92, 1996; Science Advisory Committee, 1998-99, 1990-91; Phi Beta Kappa, Historian, 1991-94, Nominations, 1989; External Evaluator (promotion), U of Alaska, 1989; Trout Gallery Exhibitions Committee, 1993-94; Departmental Library Liaison, 1988-90; Educational Testing Service–AP Evaluator 1988, 1991; CPC Teaching Workshop, Discussion Leader, 1990-91; Arts Award Committee, 1991-1994; Director, \u201cLoan of a Lover,\u201d Friends of the Library, May 1993<\/p>\n

Auburn University: Assistant Director, Freshman English, 1986-1988; Pre-College Counselor, 1986-1988; Curriculum Committee, 1985-1988, Sophomore Literature Committee, 1986-1988; Hiring Committee, 1985-1986, 1987-1988; Co-Chair, Theory Discussion Group, 1986-1988; Panel Leader, SHC; Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa in Auburn, 1986-1988<\/p>\n

University of Virginia (graduate school): Committee for the Study of\u00a0 the Individual and Society, Institute for Advanced Study, 1983-1984; Selection Committee, NEH Summer Institute: The Fictions of Romanticism, 1983; Graduate Representative, Tenure Committee, 1984<\/p>\n

Tandem School: Acting Headmaster, 1983; Assistant Headmaster, 1981-1983; Director of Admissions, 1979-1981<\/p>\n

HONORS & AWARDS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Digital Humanities Summer Student-Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2015; Smithsonian Institution, Associates Program, 2012-; Summer Study Group on Digital Humanities, 2012; Luce Faculty Study Seminar on Sustainability in Asia (LIASE), 2011-15; NASA Partnership Agreement for Climate Change Education–\u201cCooling the Liberal Arts Curriculum\u201d–organizer and presenter (“Teaching Climate Change Across Disciplines” & “Language and Climate Change”), 2010; CESE Environmental Education Fund Grant, Summer 2009; Willoughby Fellowship (Technology in the Classroom), 2008-09; The Valley and Ridge Workshop: Sustainability in the Classroom, Summer 2008; Humanities Collective and First-Year Seminar Project, 2008-09; Environmental Sustainability Summer Study Group, 2007; Renaissance Weekend (guest speaker and panelist), 2006-; “Emerson, Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism”: 24 lectures for the “Great Courses” program of the Teaching Company for audio, VHS, and DVD release, 2005-6; Dickinson College: Sabbatical Research Grant, 2005-06; Dickinson Sabbatical Supplement Grant, 2005-06; The John J. Curley ’60 and Ann Conser Curley ’63 Faculty Professor of English Language and Literature, 2003-; Charles A. Dana Professor of English, 2002-03; Research Reassigned Time (R&D Committee), Spring 2001;\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in the World<\/em>, 2002-2000;\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in America<\/em>, 2002-2000; Dickinson Summer Scholar Grant, 2000; Sabbatical Research Grant, 1999-2000;\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in the East<\/em>, 2000-1998; Classics Department Summer Immersion, Greece, 1998; Mellon Student-Faculty Research Grant, Summer, 1997; Mellon Grant for Reassigned-Time–CPC Technology Project, Fall 1996; Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 1994; Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1993; FIPSE Grant for Library-Classroom Links, 1993-94; Mellon Faculty-Student Research Grant, 1992; Africa Summer Study Group, 1992; Board of Advisor\u2019s Summer Research Grant, 1990; Curriculum Revision Summer Study-Group Stipend, 1990; NEH Summer Seminar, \u201cThe Romantic Literary Career,\u201d Johns Hopkins University, 1989; R&D support for travel to conferences, 1988-98<\/p>\n

Auburn University: Honors Faculty, 1985-88; Mellon Travel Grant for Faculty Development Seminar, Vanderbilt University, 1988; Research Grant-in-Aid, 1986, 1987; Humanities Fund, Travel Grant, 1985; NEH Summer Institute: \u201cPostcolonial Literature,\u201d Indiana University, 1985<\/p>\n

University of Virginia (graduate school): Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University,\u00a0 Summer 1983; DuPont Fellowship, 1983-84; Governor\u2019s Fellow, 1978-80;\u00a0 NEH Institute: 1980; Visiting Researcher, William Morris Centre, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa, 1975; DuPont Fellow, 1971-75<\/p>\n

Journalism: APEX Writing Award, 1993; Associated Press Reporting Award, 1976; Virginia Press Association Feature Writing Award, 1976<\/p>\n

JOURNALISM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Home to Roost: Generations Enjoy a Mountaintop Cabin,” Cabin Living <\/em>(June 2017): 19<\/p>\n

“Brancacci Chapel Junkie,”\u00a0The Florentine: News & Views Around Florence<\/em>\u00a0(Italy), December 2005, 20<\/p>\n

\u201cWords and Deeds: A Reflection on Language and Terror,\u201d\u00a0Dickinson Magazine<\/em>, January 2002, 24-25<\/p>\n

“Deja Vu<\/em>\u00a0All Over Again,”\u00a0University of Virginia Alumni Magazine<\/em>, Spring 1997, 80<\/p>\n

\u201cArtistic Creativity in a Millennial Age,\u201d in\u00a0The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Fellowship Recipients 1996<\/em>, catalogue essay, 4<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are All Disciples of Nonviolence,\u201d\u00a0Dickinson Magazine<\/em>, January 1993: 18-20 [winner of APEX \u201893 Writing Award for Publication Excellence]<\/p>\n

\u201cRomantic Ideology and Postmodern Pedagogy: Collapsing the Difference Between Cultural Categories,\u201d\u00a0PMC-TALK<\/em>, North Carolina State University, 1993<\/p>\n

\u201cJefferson\u2019s Poplar Forest,\u201d\u00a0Country Magazine<\/em>\u00a0(March 1981), 49-51<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching at Tandem,\u201d\u00a0Albemarle Monthly<\/em>, 3:2 (1981), 24<\/p>\n

\u201cRestoring a Neo-1930 Virginia Vernacular,\u201d\u00a0Preservation News<\/em>, February 1980, 5<\/p>\n

\u201cHome Among the Secrets of the Blue Ridge,\u201d\u00a0Country Magazine<\/em>, July 1981, 4<\/p>\n

\u201cSheila Waters and\u00a0Under Milk Wood<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0Fine Print<\/em>, 5:2 (April 1979), 33-39<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fish is Fresh, the Heritage is Alive,\u201d\u00a0Historic Preservation<\/em>, 31:3 (July\/August 1979), 14-20<\/p>\n

\u201cSheila Waters: Modern Medieval Artist,\u201d\u00a0Maryland Magazine<\/em>\u00a0(1978), 36<\/p>\n

\u201cHumane Letters: A Sense of Doing Something Well,\u201d\u00a0Washingtonian<\/em>\u00a013:6 (1978), 120-1<\/p>\n

Book reviews in\u00a0Historic Preservation<\/em>,\u00a0Preservation News<\/em>,\u00a0Fine Print<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Journal of the Society for Architectural Historians<\/em>, 1976-81<\/p>\n

POETRY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Henry David Builds His Hut,” What Would Henry Do?<\/em> Bicentennial Volume, Concord: Thoreau Farm Historical Site, 2017 (forthcoming)<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy Together?\u201d Viva la Focus<\/em> (Dutch Mobile Film Festival), Video:\u00a0World Wide Poem<\/em>, featuring, Marco Fazzini (Vicenza, Italy), Alsaddiq Alraddi (Khartoum, Egypt), Alice ter Meulen (Geneva, Switzerland), Michael Augustin (Bremen, Germany), Ashton Nichols (Pennsylvania, USA) and others, (2010)<\/p>\n

“Swamp Dweller,” “A Message to the Muse,” “There is no Noonday,” “Fisherman,” “”The Flowers Are as Dead,” “The Tree House,” “Bobcat,”\u00a0Atenea: A Bilingual Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences,\u00a0<\/em>special issue on “Humans and the Environment” 26:1 (2006): 167-73<\/p>\n

“A Living Calendar: A Twelve Poem Cycle,”\u00a0PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature<\/em>\u00a0(3:2005): 61-65<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the field there is an animal,\u201d \u201cOpen Season,\u201d and \u201cAnimate Nature,\u201d in \u201cRegarding the Rural\u201d issue of\u00a0Terrain: A Journal of the Natural and Built Environments<\/em>\u00a0(10: Fall 2001). Included in “Best of\u00a0Terrain<\/em>\u00a01-10″ 11 (2002)<\/p>\n

\u201cSong for a Singer,\u201d \u201cBirchbark: Mutability Revisited,\u201d \u201cWritten After Swimming Across the Thames,\u201d\u00a0Dickinson Review\u00a0<\/em>(2001)<\/p>\n

\u201cBonfire,\u201d and \u201cAt the Cider Press\u201d in\u00a0The Adirondack Review<\/em>\u00a0(3, Fall 2000)<\/p>\n

\u201cA Cabin Burns\u201d in\u00a0Southern Humanities Review<\/em>\u00a0(34:2, 2000)<\/p>\n

\u201cBritons Carrying Their Treasures\u201d in \u201cCrossing Cultures\u201d issue of\u00a0Mattoid<\/em>\u00a0(Australia, 1998)<\/p>\n

\u201cShad at the Rappahannock Fall Line\u201d in\u00a0Country Magazine<\/em>\u00a03:4 (April 1982)<\/p>\n

\u201cNovember\u201d in\u00a0Resurgence<\/em>\u00a0(UK, May-June 1981)<\/p>\n

\u201cThreadneedle Lament\u201d in\u00a0Old World Anthology<\/em>\u00a0(1977)<\/p>\n

\u201cEpiphany\u201d in\u00a0Arts Journal<\/em>\u00a0(honorable mention, National Poetry Prize, 1977)<\/p>\n

London Lyrics, a chapbook published by the\u00a0William Morris Centre<\/em>\u00a0(London: Kelmscott House\u00a0Press, 1978)<\/p>\n

FICTION<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Last Sturgeon,”\u00a0Bestia<\/em>\u00a0(8: 2001\/02): 81-89<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pepsi Generation,\u201d\u00a0Dickinson Review<\/em>\u00a0(15: Spring 2001): 105-116<\/p>\n

\u201cMaryland is for Crabs,\u201d\u00a0The Maryland Review<\/em>\u00a0(12: Winter\/Spring 2000): 8-14<\/p>\n

EDUCATION:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1984: English–Dissertation: \u201cThe Poetics of Epiphany:\u00a0\u00a0 Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment
\n–Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University, Summer 1983<\/p>\n

M.A. University of Virginia, 1979: English–Thesis: \u201cBlessed Moods and Flights of Fire:\u00a0\u00a0 Transformations of Self-Consciousness in Wordsworth and Shelley\u201d<\/p>\n

B.A. University of Virginia, 1975: Philosophy, High Honors
\n–Full-Course Student, Philosophy, University College London, 1973-74<\/p>\n

EMPLOYMENT:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dickinson College:<\/p>\n

–Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies (joint appointment in Environmental Studies & Sciences and English Departments), 2010-current \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –John J. Curley ’60 and Ann Conser Curley ’63 Faculty Professor of the Liberal Arts \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –Charles A. Dana Professor of English, 2002-03
\n–Professor, English, 1998-2002 (Department Chair, English, 2001-03)
\n–Associate Dean of the College, 1998-99
\n–Associate Professor, English, 1992-1998
\n–Chair, Department of English, 1997-98
\n–Director, Dickinson Programs in England:
\n–University of East Anglia, Norwich, Visiting Lecturer, 1994-95
\n–Assistant Professor, English, 1988-1992
\nAuburn University: Assistant Professor, English, 1984-1988
\nThe Tandem School: Acting Headmaster, 1983; Assistant Headmaster, 1981-83
\n–Director of Admissions, 1979-81
\n–English Department, 1979-83
\nThe National Trust for Historic Preservation: Editor, 1977-78
\nThe Free Lance-Star: Staff Reporter, 1976<\/p>\n

TEACHING:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoreau and American Nature Writing (ENGL 403\/04), Postnational Fiction (403\/404), Frankenstein and Other Romantic Monsters (403\/404), Romantic Women? Victorian Men? (403\/404), The Myth of Frankenstein (403\/404), Revolutionary Romanticism (403\/404), Wordsworth (403), Shelley and His Circle (407), Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats (407), Wordsworth and Hardy in Hyperspace (399), Modern Poetry (393), Thoreau, Wilderness, and American Writing (379), Romantic Transcendentalism (370), Romanticism (360), Romantic Postmodernism (379 & 322), Nineteenth-Century Literature (360 & 204), Humanities 309\/310 (London and the University of East Anglia), Critical Approaches and Literary Methods (220), Expository Writing (211), Writing About Natural History: Natural History Mosaic with Marcus Key and Gene Wingert (212), Writing About the Galapagos (212), Writing About Nature (212), American Nature Writing: Environment, Culture, and Values (ENST 111 \/ ENGL 101), Literature and Science (101), Literature and the Environment (101), African and American Novels (101), South African Literature (101), Romantic Natural History (101), Literary Lives (121), Literature of Protest (121); Colonizing Consciousness (121),\u00a0 London as a Text: A City and a World (Humanities 109); Thoreau and American Nature Writing, The Myth of Frankenstein, The \u201cWeb\u201d of Nature Writing; Nature in the Text;\u00a0 Nature, Self and Society\u00a0 (First-Year Seminars).<\/p>\n

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern Language Association (MLA), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Humanities Education (AASHE), North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), International Association of Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), The William Morris Society, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), American Conference on Romanticism (ACR), Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Social Ecology\u00a0(SEEJSE),\u00a0Beast Fable Society (BFS)<\/p>\n

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:<\/span><\/p>\n

My next book project,\u00a0Humanature: Challenges for Homo sapiens in a World of Plants and Animals,\u00a0<\/em>will explore the complex tensions between and among human being and the living things around us. It will also explore our need for new relationships with the creatures–and the green life–that surrounds our world.<\/p>\n

“Urbanatural Roosting,” the concept first explored in my 2011\/2012 (paper) book–Beyond Romantic Ecocriticsm: Toward Urbanatural Roosting<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan)–remains a secondary\u00a0subject\u00a0of my research work and interests. As a result of requests from readers and reviewers, I am expanding that work into a web-portal:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/urbanaturalroosting\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition,\u00a0my first web-portal, A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859<\/em>\u00a0continues its\u00a0survey\u00a0of\u00a0writings about the natural world in the century before Darwin in order to understand interactions between literary and scientific writing in the period. The goal is to trace our current environmental concerns to their sources in late Enlightenment ideas about the relation between human life and the natural world. The project can still be found at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/users.dickinson.edu\/~nicholsa\/Romnat\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, I am still committed to working with scholars and students of digital humanities and media (as well as all of the tools of information technology) to create new ways to engage scholars and artists in the expanding knowledge-work and creative work that is resulting from our ongoing digital revolution.<\/p>\n

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