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Dr. Nicole L. Willey

English
Professor
Campus:
Tuscarawas
Contact Information
Email:
nwilley@kent.edu
Phone:
330-308-7518

Biography

Nicole Willey is a Professor of English at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, where she has been teaching literature and writing courses since 2003. Her research interests include mothering, masculinities, memoir, pedagogy, nineteenth-century American literature, and slave narratives. She wrote Creating a New Ideal of Masculinity for American Men: The Achievement of Sentimental Women Writers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century and co-edited the collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives, and is currently working on a collection about Feminist Fathering. She is also the Mentoring Program Coordinator for faculty at the Tuscarawas campus. She lives in New Philadelphia, Ohio with her husband, two sons, and their dog.

Education

2003 Ph.D. in English Literature. University of Alabama. 1999 M.A. in English Literature. Kent State University. 1995 B.S. Summa Cum Laude. Secondary English Education. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Expertise

Motherhood Memoir African-American Literature Feminist/Gender Theory

Publications

  • Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. Eds. Justine Dymond and Nicole Willey.Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013. Print.
  • Creating a New Ideal of Masculinity for American Men: The Achievement of Sentimental Women Writers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2007. Print.
  • “Non-Traditional Fathering in Botswana: Alexander McCall Smith’s Vision for NurturingPaternity in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series.” Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Modern Family. Ed. Liz Podnieks. Palgrave, 2016.
  • “In Search of Our Mother’s Memoirs: Form and Function in African American Motherhood in Letters.” Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. Eds. Justine Dymond and Nicole Willey. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013. 233-260. Print.
  • “Introduction: Creating the Collection.” Justine Dymond, co-author. Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. Eds. Justine Dymond and Nicole Willey. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013. 1-30. Print.
  • “Colonialism’s Impact on Mothering: Jamaica Kincaid’s Rendering of the Mother-Daughter Split.” Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures. Eds. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurie
  • “Anger in the House: Writing, Reading, and Mothering.” Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages. Eds. Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent. Somerville, ME: All Things that Matter P, 2009. 29-33. Print.
  • “Mothering in Slavery: A Revision of African Feminist Principles.” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 9.2 (2008): 191-207. Print.
  • “Of ‘Indians,’ History, and Truth: Postmodernism 101 for First Year Students.” Teaching English at the Two-Year College 34.3 (2007): 271-278. Print.
  • “Why Do Women Write? An Autobiography of a Dissertation.” Women Writers: Special Issue on Autotheory Ed. Lisa Johnson. (Summer 2003). www.womenwriters.net/may2003/willey.html.
  • “Ibuza vs. Lagos: The Feminist and Traditional Buchi Emecheta.” The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 2.2 (Fall/Winter 2000): 155-166. Print.

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