Ashton Nichols, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ashton Nichols

Social sciences and humanities professor

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1953

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: social scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ashton Nichols is the current Walter E.
Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainable Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature at Dickinson College.
His interests are in literature, contemporary ecocriticism, Romanticism, and nature writing.
Nichols teaches courses in Romanticism, 19th century literature, literature and the environment, and nature writing.
He is especially well-known for his study of James Joyce's literary concept of "epiphany" and his coinage of the phrase "urbanatural roosting," an idea which links urban with natural modes of existence and argues for ways of living more lightly on the earth, for inhabiting our planet the way animals do, by altering our environments without harming those same environments.