Rachael L. Nichols
Visiting Assistant Professor in English
Office: Palamountain 331
Telephone: (518) 580-5193
Email: rnichol1@skidmore.edu; nichols.rachael@gmail.com
Education
- A.B., Brown University
- M.Phil., University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research & Teaching Interests
- Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
- American Studies
- Early American Studies
- Animal Studies
- Science and Literature
- Critical Race Studies
- Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Courses Taught
- EN 105: Of Animals
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Study
- EN 211: Introduction to Fiction
- EN 226: Introduction to American Literature
- EN 229: Scientific American
- EN 322: Race, Gender, and Genre in Late 19th-Century U.S. Literature
- EN 322: American Realism
- EN 324: American Fictions
- EN 362: Early American Literature and Culture
- EN 363: Revolutions: U.S. Literature and Culture 1776-1865
Research
- Animal Entanglements: Evolving Forms in U.S Literature and Culture, 1870-1920 [book manuscript in progress]
Publications
- Review of Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York UP, 2011). Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 36.4 (September 2014).
- "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).
Fellowships & Awards
- Faculty Development Grant, Skidmore College, 2014
- Summer Seminar, "The Art of Science and Technology, 1750-1900," Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, 2014
- 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
