Niles B. Tomlinson

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Niles B. Tomlinson

Adjunct Professor of Writing


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Office Phone: 202-242-5174
Ames Hall 2100 Foxhall Road, NW, Office 217 Washington DC 20007

Niles Tomlinson received his PhD from George Washington University with a focus on the intersection between 19th-C American literature and animal theory/natural history. Niles is fascinated with the human/animal border and has related scholarly interests in posthumanism, carnvivalesque satire (satyr), and contemporary American science fiction/horror film. His two most recent conference papers explore, respectively, human/panther crossing in Charles Brockden Brown’s 1799 novel Edgar Huntly and trans-species resistance to race fixing in Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out.


UW1020: Satire as Social Critique

UW1020: Ghosts of Washington

UW1020: Madness

UW1020: Human/Animal

"Creeping in the 'Mere': Catagenesis in Poe's 'Black Cat' and Gilman's 'Yellow Wallpaper'." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no 3, 2010, pp. 232-268.

"Of Horse Blood and TV Snow: Abhuman Reproduction in The Ring." The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring, edited by Kristen Lacefield, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 175-189.