Garrett W.

Nichols
EDUCATION

401 Southwest Parkway, #916 College Station, TX 77840 (208) 582 0354 gwnicho@tamu.edu

Ph.D. Student in English, Texas A&M University, May 2013 Concentrations: Cultural Rhetorics, Rural Studies, and Queer Theory Dissertation: Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of Rurality Committee: Qwo-Li Driskill (chair); Shona Jackson, Susan Stabile, Angela Pulley Hudson Master of Arts in English, Illinois State University, May 2009 Concentrations: American Literature, Rural Studies Thesis: An Archaeology of Small Towns Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Grove City College, May 2004 Concentrations: Social Psychology; Minors: English and Theatre Cum laude with High Honors in Psychology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Texas A&M University: Fall 2009 Present. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Illinois State University: 2007 2009. Writing Tutor, University Center for Learning Assistance, Illinois State University: 2007 2009.

PUBLICATIONS
Nichols, 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 The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. Southern Literary Journal. Under review. Nichols, Garrett W. The Danger of Being Ridden by a Type: Bodies, Fantasies, and Technologies in Henry Jamess The Real Thing and In the Cage. Modern Fiction Studies. Under review.

HONORS & AWARDS

2011 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&M University

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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 Rural Experiences. 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 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. 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. 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 National Popular 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 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. November 2008. Nichols, Garrett W. Feast or Famine: Gustavo Prez Firmats Gastronomy of Exile via Antonio Jos Ponte and Cristina Garcia. Roundtable on Critical Approaches to Transnational Literatures. Normal, IL. May 2008. Nichols, Garrett W. (Re)Presenting Identity: Re-identifying the Schitsuumsch. Illinois State Graduate 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 Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Francisco, CA. March 2008.

TEACHING
ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Spring 2010; Scheduled Fall 2012. ENGL 241 Advanced Composition, Texas A&M University: Spring 2012. ENGL 301 Technical Communication, Texas A&M University: Summer 2010; Summer 2011; Fall 2011. ENGL 203 Intro. to Literature: Civil Dialogues Focus, Texas A&M University: Fall 2010 Spring 2011.

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ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric, Texas A&M University: Fall 2009. ENG 101.10 Composition as Critical Inquiry, Illinois State University: Fall 2007 Spring 2009. IDS 121.51 Texts & Contexts Ethnic Studies: Introduction to Ethnic Literatures, Illinois State University: October 21 30, 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 2011 Present. Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Texas A&M University, Summer 2011 Present. Civil Dialogues Committee, Writing Programs Office, Texas A&M University, Spring 2010 Spring 2011. Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, 2010 2011. English Graduate Student Association Representative, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University, Spring 2010. Masters Representative, Graduate Faculty Committee, Illinois State University, 2008 2009 . Moderator, Post-Graduate Opportunities Panel at 2008 MUSE Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington, IL. September 27, 2008. Table Leader, Responding to and Assessing Visual/Multimodal Texts at ISU Writing Program Professional Development Event, Illinois State University, September 23, 2008. Creator & Presenter, Workshop: Writing in the Academy, University Center for Learning Assistance, 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, 2007 2008. Coordinator, Abstracts, Graduate Forum, Illinois State University, February 8, 2008. Service to the Community Board Member, Aggie Allies, Texas A&M University, Fall 2011 Present. Facilitator, Aggie Allies, Texas A&M University, Fall 2011 Present.

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Panelist, GLBTA Speakers Bureau, Texas A&M University, Fall 2010 Present. Graduate President, Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Delta Chapter, Illinois State University, 2008 2009.

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

American Studies Association Conference on College Composition and Communication Lambda Iota Tau Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association National Council of Teachers of English Omicron Delta Kappa Queer Studies Working Group, Texas A&M Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Pi Sigma Alpha/Mortar Board Sigma Tau Delta Texas A&M GLBTA Texas A&M Graduate Teaching Academy