{"id":98,"date":"2012-09-24T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/?p=98"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:41:02","slug":"ashton-nichols-personal-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/2012\/09\/24\/ashton-nichols-personal-homepage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00a0<\/big>\u00a0<\/small><\/strong><\/span>
\nAshton Nichols<\/big><\/small><\/strong><\/small><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

The Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair<\/strong><\/h2>\n

in Sustainability Studies<\/h2>\n

Department of English, Dickinson College
\n<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/small><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Blogs & Websites:<\/h2>\n

Urbanature, August 2008-present<\/a><\/h2>\n

Thoreau, Wilderness, and American Nature Writing, January 2009-<\/a><\/h2>\n

A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (2009)<\/a><\/h2>\n

Dickinson in the Galapagos (2002-03)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Links\u00a0 to Selected Class Syllabi on the Web:<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

English 403:\u00a0Thoreau and American Nature Writing<\/a>\u00a0. . . . . . .Fall 2013<\/p>\n

First-Year Seminar:\u00a0Thoreau and American Nature Writing<\/a>\u00a0. Fall 2013<\/p>\n

English 404:\u00a0Senior Thesis: Critical Writing Workshop<\/a>. . . Spring 2011<\/p>\n

English 360:\u00a0Ecocriticism<\/a>\u00a0. . . . . . . . . . \u00a0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Spring 2011<\/p>\n

English 101:\u00a0Small Poems, Big Ideas<\/a>. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .Spring 2011<\/p>\n

English 370:\u00a0Romantic Orientalism and Its Critics<\/a>. . . . . . Spring 2010<\/p>\n

English 101:\u00a0British and American Nature Writing<\/a>. . . . . . Spring 2010<\/p>\n

English 220:\u00a0Critical Approaches and Literary Methods\u00a0<\/a>. . . Fall 2009<\/p>\n

English 379:\u00a0Thoreau, Wilderness, American Writing\u00a0<\/a>. .\u00a0Spring 2009<\/p>\n

English 403:\u00a0Frankenstein and Other Romantic Monsters<\/a>\u00a0. Fall 2008<\/p>\n

First-Year Seminar:\u00a0The Myth of Frankenstein<\/a>\u00a0. . . . . . . ..Fall 2007<\/p>\n

English 404:\u00a0Senior Critical Writing Workshop<\/a>. . . . . . . Spring 2004<\/p>\n

English 403:\u00a0Revolutionary Romanticism<\/a>\u00a0. . . . . . . . . . . . .Fall 2003<\/p>\n

English 101:\u00a0Romantic Natural History<\/a>\u00a0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2003<\/p>\n

English 101:\u00a0Romantics and Victorians<\/a>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2001<\/p>\n

English 212:\u00a0Writing About Nature<\/a>\u00a0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 1999<\/p>\n

English 399:\u00a0Wordsworth and Hardy in Hyperspace<\/a>\u00a0. . . . Fall 1996
\nLink to “Thomas Hardy’s World”<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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Link to Selected Essays on the Web:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1)\u00a0“Thoreau and Urbanature: From Walden to Ecocriticism”<\/a>\u00a0Neohelicon: Actos Comparationis Literarum Universarum<\/em><\/strong>\u00a036:2 (December 2009): 347-55 Budapest: Springer, 2009<\/p>\n

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2)\u00a0“Romantic Ecomorphism,”<\/a>\u00a0“Ecomorphism and Ecoromanticism,”<\/a>\u00a0“Wilding and Roosting,”<\/a>\u00a0“Romantic Natural History,”<\/a>\u00a0“Emerson and Infinity,”<\/a>\u00a0“Urbanature.”<\/a>\u00a0Romantic Circles<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Invited Blog Posts, with Tim Morton (UC-Davis) and Kurt Fosso (Lewis and Clark). Thematic Thread: Ecocriticism, 9-12\/2008. [http:\/\/www.rc.umd.edu\/blog_rc\/]<\/p>\n

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3)“Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin”<\/a>
\n(<\/small>f<\/small><\/small>rom\u00a0The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society\u00a0149:3 2005 )<\/small><\/small><\/h2>\n

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4)“The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature”<\/a>
\n(from\u00a0Romantic Circles Praxis Series<\/em>\u00a0on “Romantic Ecology,” November 2001)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5)“Romantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Nineteenth-Century Spectacle”<\/a>
\n(from\u00a0A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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6)“The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History”<\/a>
\n(from\u00a0The Wordsworth Circle\u00a0<\/em>28:3 (1997): 130-36)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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7)“Hyping the Hypertext: Scholarship and the Limits of Technology”<\/a>
\n(Loyola University Chicago electronic publications, October 1996)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Publications with Additional Web Links:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)<\/p>\n

\u201cNichols offers a provocative new approach to understanding the role of humankind in a post-natural, post-industrial world. Grounded in a perceptive reading of Romantic natural history, this book moves beyond the conventional nature-versus-culture dichotomy toward a more inclusive concept of \u2018urbanatural roosting.’ Along the way, Nichols makes important contributions to our scholarly understanding of British Romantic poetry, American environmentalism, and the history of science.\u201d<\/strong>\u2014James C. McKusick, author of\u00a0\u00a0Green Writing:\u00a0Romanticism and Ecology<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAmbitious, learned, experimental, and thoroughly readable,\u00a0\u00a0Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0posits \u2018urbanatural roosting’ as a vital twenty-first-century mode of ecological thinking. Perhaps this is what the Chinese might call the ‘tian ren he yi’ (the harmonious unity of the universe and man) of the new millennium. An inspired (and inspiring) book!\u201d<\/strong>\u2014Scott Slovic, editor of\u00a0\u00a0ISLE: Interdisciplinary\u00a0Studies in Literature and Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPart lyrical memoir, part literary and cultural history, part philosophical meditation, Nichols’ compelling new book is above all an eloquent, erudite, and impassioned manifesto for a new way of thinking, writing, and living more self-consciously, equitably, and sustainably on this earth. Stressing both the historicity of \u2018wilderness’ and the naturality of the city, Nichols envisages the collaboration of scientific knowledge, urban design and the artistic imagination in the crafting of thriving \u2018ecomorphic’ townscapes as part of a wider practice of sharing and caring for all of earth’s diverse, yet all more or less humanized places and spaces.\u201d<\/strong>\u2014Kate Rigby, Monash University and author\u00a0 of\u00a0Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0Place in European Romanticism<\/em><\/p>\n

Romantic Natural Histories: William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin and Others<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Houghton Mifflin, 2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0The Revolutionary “I”: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Macmillan \/ St. Martin’s, 1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Alabama, 1987)<\/p>\n

“Mumbo Jumbo: Mungo Park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa,”<\/strong>\u00a0Romanticism, Race, & Imperial Culture<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Indiana, 1996)
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0
\n“Face to Face with Wild Dophins,”<\/a>\u00a0Sea Stories: An International Journal of Art and Writing<\/em>\u00a0(2006-07)\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In the field there is an animal,” “Open Season,” and “Animate Nature”:<\/a>\u00a0poems in\u00a0Terrain\u00a0and\u00a0Best of Terrain\u00a0(2002)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nCurrent Research:<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859<\/a>:<\/span><\/strong>
\nA website designed to survey literary and natural history resources from the century before Charles Darwin
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Curriculum Vitae (C.V.): Courses, Publications, Presentation<\/a>s<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Return to the\u00a0Dickinson College English Department Home Page<\/a><\/strong>
\nSend an e-mail message<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0nicholsa@dickinson.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 Ashton Nichols The Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies Department of English, Dickinson College Blogs & Websites: Urbanature, August 2008-present Thoreau, Wilderness, and American Nature Writing, January 2009- A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (2009) Dickinson in the Galapagos (2002-03) Links\u00a0 to Selected Class Syllabi on the Web: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/syllabus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}