Taylin Nelson is a PhD Student in Rice University’s English department, and has previously been an instructor at Grand Canyon University. She has taught courses on Rhetoric and Composition, Environmental Humanities, and 19th-Century Literature such as Frankenstein and the works of Jane Austen. Her current research examines the philosophical, pseudo-scientific, and literary history of nonhumans in literature of the British Enlightenment. She incorporates public humanist tools into her research and writing, as well as in the classroom, integrating research, writing, and digital literacy as vehicles to access higher education.