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 a tenure-track English Instructor at Hillsborough College, where she teaches First-Year Composition  (ENC 1101 and 1102) and Literature courses (LIT 2000). Presently, Nicole’s composition classes emphasize authorship and critical analysis (ENC 1101) and rhetoric and critical media literacy (ENC 1102); her literature courses emphasize the relationship between trauma narratives and power in 19th and 20th century literature. 

Prior to her current position, Nicole worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia State University, where she’s taught First-Year Composition and survey courses in British and World Literatures. She also held multiple Associate Director appointments within the Georgia State Writing Studio, serving as first as the Associate Director of Research and Community and then later as the Associate Director of Technology and Finance. She also contributed to a pilot program between Georgia State University’s Perimeter College and Atlanta Campuses, which uses invite-based English Composition courses to encourage associate degree students to pursue baccalaureate degrees at GSU. Additionally, Nicole worked as an adjunct instructor at Atlanta Technical College, where she taught Learning Support English, Fundamentals of English I, and Composition and Rhetoric courses. 

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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