Ashton Nichols, Ph.D., holds the Walter E. Beach '56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies and is Professor of Language and Literature in the English Department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The recipient of teaching awards that include both the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, Professor Nichols's books include *The Revolutionary "I": Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation* and *The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment* as well as a teaching anthology, *Romantic Natural Histories: William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, and Others*. He is the developer of *A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859*, a hypertext project that has been recognized for excellence by The New York Times, the BBC in London, M.I.T., Romantic Circles, and the BLTC "Site of the Day". His scholarly publications include essays and articles on Emerson and Thoreau, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Thomas Pynchon, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, Werewere Liking, J. M. Coetzee, African exploration narratives, Victorian poetry, and travel writing. He has published numerous nature essays as well as poetry and fiction. In recent years he has delivered keynote addresses and lectures in nations around the world, including China, England, Italy, Japan, India, Portugal, Cameroon, and Morocco.