She is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Georgia State University and is working on her dissertation titled “Warring Writers and the War for Writing: Power, Trauma, and Narrative Possibility through the Twentieth Century.” It explores the constitutive relationship between war narratives and the standardization of trauma as both a social and medical concept. It considers literary texts spanning the 20th century (including those written by Hemingway, Dos Pasos, Tim O’Brien, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and William Faulkner). 

Nicole works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia State University, where she’s taught First-Year Composition for 7 years. At GSU, Nicole also teaches survey courses in both British and World Literatures. This semester, Nicole is contributing to a pilot program between Perimeter College and GSU, which uses curated English Composition courses to encourage associate degree students to pursue baccalaureate degrees at GSU. Additionally, Nicole works as an adjunct instructor at Atlanta Technical College, where she teaches Learning Support English, Fundamentals of English I, and Composition and Rhetoric courses. 

Nicole currently serves as the Associate Director of Technology and Finance for the Georgia State Writing Studio. In addition to supporting and mentoring the staff of the center, Nicole’s research emphasizes the relationship between mental health, tutoring, and the writing process. 

In 2018, Nicole earned her Master’s in English from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2016, she earned her Bachelor’s in English from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.

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