RACHAEL L. NICHOLS
Visiting Assistant Professor in English

Office: Palamountain 331
Telephone: (518) 580-5193
Email: rnichol1@skidmore.edu; nichols.rachael@gmail.com

• A.B., Brown University
• M.Phil., University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

• Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
• Early American Studies
  
• American Studies
• Animal Studies
• Science and Literature

• EN 105: Of Animals
• EN 211: Introduction to Fiction
• EN 226: Introduction to American Literature
• EN 324: American Fictions
  
• EN 362: Early American Literature and Culture
  

• Animal Entanglements: Evolving Forms in U.S Literature and Culture, 1870-1920 [book manuscript in progress]
• Reconsidering the intersection of evolutionary theory and literary genre at the turn of the century, I show how Jack London, Frank Norris, and Mark Twain explored the epistemological collapse of the human-animal binary, in the process imagining a human subjectivity entwined with the animal.
  

• “Missing Links: Genre, Evolution, and Jack London's Before Adam."  Science Fiction and Literary Naturalism.  Special issue of Studies in American Naturalism 8.2 (Summer 2013).
• “Remembering Phillis Wheatley: The Historical Poetics of Robert Hayden,” The End of the American Century?, eds. Peter Bastian and Jan Pilditch. Sydney: Fulbright New Zealand with the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 2004 (149-159).

• Humane Society of the United States Summer Retreat Fellowship, 2012
  
• Mellon Graduate Research Assistantship, Penn Humanities Forum, 2009-2010
• Fulbright Scholarship, New Zealand, 2001-2002
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2001