Ashton Nichols
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Ashton Nichols (7 June 1953 - )
B. Ashton Nichols is the John J. Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Professor of English Language and Literature at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
He is an associate editor of The International Journal of the Humanities and has served as the new technologies editor for "Nineteenth Century Studies".
He is a founding faculty member of Dickinson in the Galápagos, a program that takes students and faculty to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands, and he has served as director of the Dickinson Humanities and Science Programs at the University of East Anglia where he was a visiting lecturer in 1994-5.
(See homepage.)
Works
- Poetics of Epiphany: 19th Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment (1987)
- Romantic Natural Histories (2003)
- Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement (2006)
(See entry for Lionel Trilling.)
