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401 Southwest Parkway, #916College Station, TX 77840

(208) 582 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student in English, Texas A&M University, May 2013Concentrations: Cultural Rhetorics, Rural Studies, and Queer TheoryDissertation: Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of RuralityCommittee: Qwo-Li Driskill (chair); Shona Jackson, Susan Stabile, Angela PulleyHudson

Master of Arts in English, Illinois State University, May 2009Concentrations: American Literature, Rural StudiesThesis:An Archaeology of Small Towns

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Grove City College, May 2004

Concentrations: Social Psychology; Minors: English and TheatreCum laudewith High Honors in Psychology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Texas A&M University: Fall 2009Present.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Illinois State University: 2007 2009.

Writing Tutor, University Center for Learning Assistance, Illinois State University: 20072009.

PUBLICATIONSNichols, Garrett W. The Quiet Country Closet: Reconstructing a Discourse for Closeted Rural

Experiences. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. Forthcoming.

Nichols, Garrett W. Cloes could do de like o dat: Race, Place, and Power in Mark Twains TheTragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. Southern Literary Journal. Under review.

Nichols, Garrett W. The Danger of Being Ridden by a Type: Bodies, Fantasies, and Technologiesin Henry Jamess The Real Thing and In the Cage.Modern Fiction Studies. Under review.

HONORS & AWARDS2011 Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, Texas A&M University.

2011 Graduate Student Service Award, Department of English, Texas A&M University.

2011 Lynn Brown Travel Award, Writing Programs Office, Department of English, Texas A&MUniversity

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CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

Nichols, Garrett W. Rural Drag: Rhetorics of Sexuality and Heteronormativity in Rural Texas.Invited Lecture.Aggie Allies. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX. April 2012.

Nichols, Garrett W. The Quiet Country Closet: Reconstructing Discourses for Closeted RuralExperiences. Panel: Rainbow Arches: Gateways or Barriers in LGBTQ Stories and

Identities. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Writing Gateways.St.Louis, MO. March 2012.

Nichols, Garrett W. How You Live Your Life Behind Closed Doors: Valuing Feeling as PartialPerspective in Understanding Embodied Rhetorics. Panel: Listening To/For EmbodiedRhetorics: Making Meaning Across Difference as an Act of Alliance Building. Conferenceon College Composition and Communication.All Our Relations: Contested Space, ContestedKnowledge. Atlanta, GA. April 2011.

Nichols, Garrett W. Rivers of Racism: Two Histories of Racial Criticism aboutAdventures ofHuckleberry Finnand Heart of Darkness. English Graduate Symposium. College Station, TX.

April 2010.

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 NationalPopular Culture and American Culture Associations.New Orleans, LA. April 2009.

Nichols, Garrett W. We Would Not Have You Bring the Plague among Us: How the TownInverts City Strategies in DefoesA Journal of the Plague Year.Panel: The City andLiterature: The Trail of More than Two Cities. 2008 Midwestern Modern LanguageAssociation Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN. November 2008.

Nichols, Garrett W. Feast or Famine: Gustavo Prez Firmats Gastronomy of Exile via AntonioJos Ponte and Cristina Garcia. Roundtable on Critical Approaches to TransnationalLiteratures. Normal, IL. May 2008.

Nichols, Garrett W. (Re)Presenting Identity: Re-identifying the Schitsuumsch. Illinois StateGraduate Research Symposium. Normal, IL. 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 PopularCulture and American Culture Associations. San Francisco, CA. March 2008.

TEACHING

ENGL 104Composition and Rhetoric: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Spring 2010;Scheduled Fall 2012.

ENGL 241Advanced Composition, Texas A&M University: Spring 2012.

ENGL 301Technical Communication, Texas A&M University: Summer 2010; Summer 2011; Fall2011.

ENGL 203Intro. to Literature: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Fall 2010Spring 2011.


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ENGL 104Composition and Rhetoric, Texas A&M University: Fall 2009.

ENG 101.10Composition as Critical Inquiry, Illinois State University: Fall 2007Spring 2009.

IDS 121.51Texts & ContextsEthnic Studies: Introduction to Ethnic Literatures, Illinois StateUniversity: October 2130, 2008.

SERVICE

Service to the University

Graduate Studies Student Advisory Group, Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University,Spring 2011 - Present

Graduate Representative, Diversity Committee, Department of English, Texas A&M University,Summer 2011Present.

Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Texas A&M University, Summer 2011Present.

Civil Dialogues Committee, Writing Programs Office, Texas A&M University, Spring 2010Spring2011.

Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, 20102011.

English Graduate Student Association Representative, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&MUniversity, Spring 2010.

Masters Representative, Graduate Faculty Committee, Illinois State University, 20082009 .

Moderator, Post-Graduate Opportunities Panel at 2008 MUSE Conference. Illinois WesleyanUniversity. Bloomington, IL. September 27, 2008.

Table Leader, Responding to and Assessing Visual/Multimodal Texts at ISU Writing ProgramProfessional Development Event, Illinois State University, September 23, 2008.

Creator & Presenter, Workshop: Writing in the Academy, University Center for LearningAssistance, Illinois State University, September 16, 2008.

Creator & Presenter, Workshop: The Writing Process, University Center for Learning Assistance,Illinois State University, September 5, 2008.

Graduate Forum Committee, Illinois State University, 20072008.Coordinator, Abstracts, Graduate Forum, Illinois State University, February 8, 2008.Service to the Community

Board Member, Aggie Allies, Texas A&M University, Fall 2011Present.

Facilitator, Aggie Allies, Texas A&M University, Fall 2011Present.


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Panelist, GLBTA Speakers Bureau, Texas A&M University, Fall 2010Present.

Graduate President, Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Delta Chapter, Illinois State University, 20082009.

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

American Studies Association

Conference on College Composition and CommunicationLambda Iota TauModern Language AssociationModernist Studies AssociationNational Council of Teachers of EnglishOmicron Delta KappaQueer Studies Working Group, Texas A&M Glasscock Center for Humanities ResearchPi Sigma Alpha/Mortar BoardSigma Tau DeltaTexas A&M GLBTATexas A&M Graduate Teaching Academy

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