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Christopher H. Nicholson

Graduate Student

Department of English and Creative Writing

CONTACT

chn5@rice.edu

DISSERTATION

Neanderthals in the Humanities

ADVISOR

Professor Joseph Campana

Christopher Nicholson is pursuing his Ph.D. in English Literature. His work is broadly located in Extinction Studies and blends the interdisciplinary methods of STS and the Environmental Humanities. He has presented scholarly work at the Thoreau Society and the Popular Culture Association, and has a forthcoming chapter in an edited collection. His dissertation centers the contemporary cultural afterlives of the Neanderthal in genre literature, the arts, paleoanthropological research, and public-facing science communication. Christopher is also deeply motivated by the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning.

 

Research Areas

Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Extinction Studies; Speculative and Genre Fiction; Science and Cultural Studies; Pedagogy

Education

M.A., English Literature with a concentration in Ecocriticism, University of Montana, 2022

B.A., English, SUNY Plattsburgh, 2019

B.S., Ecology, SUNY Plattsburgh, 2019

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