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Ph.D. in English, Texas A&M University, 2013 Concentrations: Rhetoric, Cultural Rhetorics, Queer Theory, and Rural Studies Dissertation: Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of Rurality Committee: Qwo-Li Driskill (co-chair), Robert Griffin (co-chair), Angela Pulley Hudson Vanita Reddy, Susan Stabile Master of Arts in English, Illinois State University, 2009 Concentrations: American Literature, Rural Studies Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Grove City College, 2004 Concentration: Social Psychology; Minors: English and Theatre (-./&"!+&)*, 0 12!*+, Nichols, Garrett W. Translating Sexuality and the Question of Kinship. Rev. of When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty by Mark Rifkin. H-Net Reviews. February 2013. Nichols, Garrett W. The Quiet Country Closet: Reconstructing a Discourse for Closeted Rural Experiences. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 3.1 (2013). Web. Selected as lead article. Nichols, Garrett W. Cloes could do de like o dat: Race, Place, and Power in Mark Twains The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. Southern Literary Journal 46.1 (2013): 110 126. Print. -3456 257859 Nichols, Garrett W. Queer Settlers in a One-Room Schoolhouse: A Decolonial Queerscape Pedagogy. Queer Landscapes: Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy. Eds. Elizabeth McNeil, James Wermers, J. Oakleaf Lunn. Collection under review at Palgrave-Macmillan for the Queer Studies and Education series. Nichols, Garrett W. The Source of a Better Civilization: White Heteronormativity and the Rhetoric of Empire in Texan Regulatory Writing. Manuscript under review at Technical Communication Quarterly.
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Garrett Nichols | CV 2 &3 (6:;65<< Nichols, Garrett W. Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of Rurality. To be submitted to University of Minnesota Press. Nichols, Garrett W. and Gabriela R. Ros. Settler Sexualities. To be submitted to University of Arizona Press. 16=3>< Innovation in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IIDEA) Grant. The Atravesado Speaker and Workshop Series. 20122013. Funded for $4,000. I was a co-author on this grant proposal, focusing on the following sections: project outline; challenges and sustainability; and outcomes and evaluation. I helped to coordinate the collaborative writing process for the grant. ")*?$2$*"$, 0 (2$,$*+!+&)*, ":3@5653A5 (65<53>=>8:3< Nichols, Garrett W. A Blessing to the People: Regulatory Writing and the Rhetorics of White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism in Texas Higher Education. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Border Rhetorics. San Antonio, TX. To be presented May 2014. Nichols, Garrett W. Even My Nutz are Red, White, and Blue: Rural Drag and the Settler Rhetorics of White Heteropatriarchy. Panel: Opening Closed Narratives, Disrupting Settler Spaces, and Challenging Entrenched Privilege: Settler Colonialism and the Rhetorics of Cultural Access. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Open | Source(s), Access, Futures. Indianapolis, IN. To be presented March 2014. Nichols, Garrett W. Moderator. Panel: Queer | Community: Intersectionality, Inclusion, and Alliance in Queer Rhetorics and Composition. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Open | Source(s), Access, Futures. Indianapolis, IN. To be presented March 2014. Nichols, Garrett W. Rural Drag: Adopting Rural Cultural Practices as an Analogue for White Settler Heteropatriarchy. National Womens Studies Association Conference. Negotiating Points of Encounter. Cincinnati, OH. To be presented November 2013. Nichols, Garrett W. Chair. Panel: Are There No Teachers Here? Automating Teaching and Assessment. Conference on College Composition and Communication. The Public Work of Composition. Las Vegas, NV. 1316 March 2013. Nichols, Garrett W. The Quiet Country Closet: Reconstructing Discourses for Closeted Rural Experiences. Panel: Rainbow Arches: Gateways or Barriers in LGBTQ Stories and Identities. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Writing Gateways. St. Louis, MO. 2124 March 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. How You Live Your Life Behind Closed Doors: Valuing Feeling as Partial Perspective in Understanding Embodied Rhetorics. Panel: Listening To/For Embodied Rhetorics: Making Meaning Across Difference as an Act of Alliance Building. Conference on College Composition and Communication. All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge. Atlanta, GA. 69 April 2011. Nichols, Garrett W. Rivers of Racism: Two Histories of Racial Criticism about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Heart of Darkness. English Graduate Symposium. College Station, TX. 21 April 2010.
Garrett Nichols | CV 3 Nichols, Garrett W. A Regime of One: Appropriating Truth and Power in Winesburg, Ohio. Panel: Language, Narration, and Discovering Truths. 2009 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. New Orleans, LA. 811 April 2009. Nichols, Garrett W. We Would Not Have You Bring the Plague among Us: How the Town Inverts City Strategies in Defoes A Journal of the Plague Year. Panel: The City and Literature: The Trail of More than Two Cities. 2008 Midwestern Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN. 1316 November 2008. Nichols, Garrett W. (Re)Presenting Identity: Re-identifying the Schitsuumsch. Illinois State Graduate Research Symposium. Normal, IL. 12 April 2008. Nichols, Garrett W. Fuzzy Boundaries: The Small Town as Other in Hot Fuzz. Panel Chair. Panel: Identity Formation: Town vs. City. 2008 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Francisco, CA. 1922 March 2008. &378>54 /5A>B65< Nichols, Garrett W. Space and Queer Studies. Oregon State University. QS 262, Introduction to Queer Studies. 20 June 2013. Nichols, Garrett W. Queering Settler Colonialism: A Decolonial Subjectless Critique. Oregon State University. WS/ES 499/599, Indigenous Queer & Two-Spirit Experiences. 22 January 2013. Nichols, Garrett W. Situated Rhetorics and the Histories of Space. Texas A&M University. ENGL 104, Composition and Rhetoric. 15 November 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. Rural Drag and The Order of Things. University of Central Florida. ENC 6355, Rhetorical Traditions. (Skype). 14 November 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. Voice and Audiences: Consulting for First-Year Writing. Texas A&M University. University Writing Center. 17 October 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man. Illinois State University. IDS 121.51, Texts & Contexts Ethnic Studies: Introduction to Ethnic Literatures. 1230 October 2008. C:6D<E:F< Nichols, Garrett W. Co-Facilitator with Laura Leigh Morris and Alma Villanueva. The Problem of Race in a Post-Racial Era: A Workshop with Victor Villanueva. The Atravesado Speaker and Workshop Series. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX. 12 September 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. Beyond Queerness: A Workshop on All of Our Identities. Invited Lecture. Aggie Allies. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX. 17 April 2012. Nichols, Garrett W. Writing in the Academy. University Center for Learning Assistance. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. 16 September 2008. G)*)2, 0 !C!2#, 2013 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee (Humanities/Fine Arts), Texas A&M University. 2013 Vision 2020 Dissertation Enhancement Award ($3,789), College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. 2013 Graduate Enhancement Merit Award ($1,000) for Cloes could do de like o dat, Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2012 Graduate Enhancement Merit Award ($1,000) for The Quiet Country Closet, Department of English, Texas A&M University.
Garrett Nichols | CV 4 2012 Graduate Student Travel Award ($500), Womens and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University. 2012 Lynn Brown Travel Award, Writing Programs Office, Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2012 Graduate Student Travel Award ($500), Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2011 Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching ($500), Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2011 Graduate Student Service Award, Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2011 Graduate Student Travel Award ($500), Department of English, Texas A&M University. 2009-2010 Regents Fellow ($5,000), Texas A&M University. +$!"G&*1 ENGL 235 Technical Writing, Bellevue College: Winter 2014 Classroom-based course focusing on the study of technical writing theory and strategies, with a focus on technical writing as culturally based and ethically responsible. ENGL 235 Technical Writing, Bellevue College: Fall 2013 (Hybrid) Hybrid online/physical course in which students learn and practice technical writing strategies using a broad spectrum of technologies, genres, and rhetorical situations. ENGL 101 English Composition I, Bellevue College: Fall 2013; Winter 2014 (Hybrid) Hybrid online/physical course introducing students to college-level composition through a lens of community engagement and social justice writing. ENGL 101 English Composition I, Bellevue College: Fall 2013. First-year composition course designed to help students develop a competency in composition and rhetorical studies through a lens of community engagement and social justice writing. ENGL 301 Technical Communication, Texas A&M University: Summer 2010; Summer 2011; Fall 2011; Summer 2012 (Online). Online and classroom upper-level course focusing on cross-cultural communication within business and technical writing. ENGL 241 Advanced Composition, Texas A&M University: Spring 2012. Hybrid online and physical classroom course designed to teach students advanced rhetorical and composition strategies as a means to pursue and enact social justice and community building. ENGL 203 Introduction to Literature: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Fall 2010; Spring 2011. (Special Section) Course designed to teach written analysis of literary texts, focusing specifically on texts that engage with difference and difficult topics. ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Spring 2010. (Special Section) First-year writing course introducing students to a critical engagement of composition and rhetoric through discussions of race, gender, disability, sexuality, class, and privilege in conjunction with Ford Foundations initiative on academic freedom. ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric, Texas A&M University: Fall 2009. First-year writing course introducing students to a critical engagement of composition and rhetoric. ENG 101 Composition as Critical Inquiry, Illinois State University: Spring 2008-Spring 2009. First-year writing course introducing students to the basics of argument, rhetoric, and composition.
Garrett Nichols | CV 5 ENG 101.10 Composition as Critical Inquiry, Illinois State University: Fall 2007. First-year developmental writing course introducing students to the basics of argument, rhetoric, and composition. ,$2H&"$ ,5678A5 >: >E5 (6:@5<<8:3 Stage I Reviewer, 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2014 2015.
Co-chair, CCCC Queer Caucus, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2012Present. Successfully proposed three new awards to the national committee recognizing queer scholarship in the study of rhetoric and composition: Gloria Anzalda Rhetorician Award, Lavender Rhetorics Award, and Stonewall Service Award. 2014 CCCC LGBTQ Awards Selection Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Fall 2013Present. ,5678A5 >: >E5 -38756<8>I Atravesado Speaker and Workshop Series Planning Committee, Texas A&M University, 20112012. Graduate Studies Student Advisory Group, Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University, 20112012. Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Texas A&M University, 20112012. Panelist, GLBTA Speakers Bureau, Texas A&M University, 20102012. English Graduate Student Association Representative, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University, Spring 2010. Graduate President, Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Delta Chapter, Illinois State University, 20082009. Moderator, Post-Graduate Opportunities Panel at 2008 MUSE Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington, IL. 27 September 2008. ,5678A5 >: >E5 #5F=6>J53> Accreditation Assessment ENGL 235 (Technical Writing), Department of English, Bellevue College, Fall 2013 Graduate Representative, Diversity Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Summer 2011Fall 2012. Civil Dialogues Committee, Writing Programs Office, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 20102011. Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, Department of English, Texas A&M University, 20102011. Masters Representative, Graduate Faculty Committee, Department of English, Illinois State University, 20082009. Table Leader, Responding to and Assessing Visual/Multimodal Texts at ISU Writing Program Professional Development Event, Department of English, Illinois State University, 23 September 2008. Graduate Forum Committee, Department of English, Illinois State University, 20072008.
Garrett Nichols | CV 6 ,5678A5 >: >E5 ":JJB38>I Facilitator, Aggie Allies, College Station, TX, 20112012. Board Member, Aggie Allies, College Station, TX, 20112012. %$%.$2,G&(,K !??&/&!+&)*, 0 "$2+&?&"!+&)*, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference on College Composition and Communication CRLA Level One Writing Tutor Certification Modern Language Association National Council of Teachers of English National Womens Studies Association Queer Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Rhetoric Society of America 2$?$2$*"$, Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Oregon State University (936) 307-4662 qwo-li.driskill@oregonstate.edu
Dr. Valerie Balester University Writing Center Texas A&M University (979) 458-1455 v-balester@tamu.edu
Dr. Robert Griffin Department of English Texas A&M University (979) 845-3452 rjgriffin@tamu.edu
Dr. Angela Pulley Hudson Department of History Texas A&M University (979) 845-7151 aphudson@tamu.edu
Dr. Vanita Reddy Department of English Texas A&M University (979) 862-1411 vdreddy@tamu.edu