Charles H. Nichols Files (Of-1UF-N1)

Biographical/Historical Note

Charles H. Nichols was a professor of English at Brown University. He received a Bachelor's of English and American literature from Brooklyn College in 1942 and received a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1948. His dissertation was titled "A Study of the Slave Narrative." Nichols worked as an associate professor of English at Morgan State College (1948-1949), a professor of English at the Hampton Institute (1949-1959), a professor of North American language and literature at the Free University Berlin (1959-1969), and a professor of English at Brown University (starting in 1969). He also lectured at universities in Norway, Sweden, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, England, and the United States. At Brown University, Nichols was instrumental in the creation of the Afro-American Studies program and served as a chairman of the new interdepartmental concentration. In 1993, he accepted the Charles H. Nichols Award, given to the Rhode Island resident who contributed the most to the scholarly knowledge of black people. He died in 2007.