Nicole K. Turner
Curriculum Vitae
(301)-250-0480 | nturner20@gsu.edu
EDUCATION:
PhD | English Literature | Projected Graduation 2024
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Dissertation: “Warring Writers and the War for Writing: Power, Trauma, and Narrative Possibility through the Twentieth Century”
Chair: Dr. Randy Malamud
Readers: Dr. Jay Rajiva and Dr. Chris Kocela
M.A. | English Literature | 2018
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Thesis: “Recognizing Female Trauma in Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf War Novels”
Chair: Dr. Randy Malamud
Readers: Dr. Jay Rajiva and Dr. LeeAnne Richardson
B.A. | English | 2016
Hood College, Frederick, MD
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Chapters
“‘The Time Had Come For Me To Understand’: Leonora Carrington and Narrativizing the Madwoman through Traumatic Testimony in Down Below,” Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art, Edited by Nicole Crevar and Jessica Lowell Mason, Vernon Press, 2022.
“Turning Emergency-Response to Standard Procedure through a Trauma-Informed Attention to Crisis,” Lessons from the Pandemic: Trauma-Informed Approaches to College, Crisis, Change, Edited by Janice Carello and Phyllis Thompson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Book Reviews
“Writing Centers and Disability, Edited by Rebecca Day Babcock and Sharifa Daniels”, Book Review. Reviewed in Southern Discourse Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, May 2020, pp. 70-74.
CONFERENCE PAPER AND TALKS
2023
“Resilience adn Resistance: An Embodied Approach to Writing Center Practices,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Memphis, TN, February 2023.
2022
“Graduate Student Tutors Approaches for Navigating Personal and Professional Experiences of Precarity and Stress in Writing Center Work,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Virtual Conference, February 2022.
2021
“A Steely Presence: Centering Trauma Theory and Care Work in Writing Center Practices,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Virtual Conference, February 2021.
“Working Through Shared Concerns Between Composition Classrooms and Writing Center Tutorials for Online Teaching,” Lower Division Staff Training and Mentoring Session, Georgia State University, February 2021.
2020
“Interdisciplinary Interpretations and Applications of Foucault,” Southeastern Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, FL, November 2020.
“Growing into Writing Center Needs: Addressing Trauma in Writing Centers,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Birmingham, AL, February 2020.
“Cultivating Writing Center Roles: Professional Growth from Tutor to Administrator,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Birmingham, AL, February 2020.
“Down Below and Leonora Carrington’s Feminist (Re)Imagining of Surrealism,” New Voices Graduate Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 2020.
2019
“It was she who suffered—but she had nobody to tell”: Rezia Warren Smith’s Unregistered Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway,” Southeastern Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2019.
“Lets Have the Conversation: What Role Should Trauma, Mental Health, an Self-Care Play in Writing Center Pedagogy,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Myrtle Beach, SC. February, 2019.
“How Grammar Instruction Can Meet Course Objectives in First Year Composition Classroom.” Lower Division Staff Training and Mentoring Session, February 2019.
“‘It is a war on foot: Receiving and Perceiving Trauma in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost,” New Voices, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, January 2019.
2018
“A Space for Transitions: Liminal Positions in Writing Centers,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Richmond, VA., February 2018.
“Do You Want to Be Our Partner? Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning to Symbiotic Relationships with Other Organizations,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Richmond, VA. February, 2018.
“Studying Abroad as Impetus for Examining Epistemological Concerns Related to Pedagogy,” New Voices, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA., January, 2018.
2017
“Tutors on the Case: Observing Different Aspects of Tutoring Sessions,” International Writing Center Association Conference, Chicago, IL., November 2017.
TEACHING
2017-Present Instructor of Record, Georgia State University English Department
British Literature (Spring 2023)
First-Year Composition I (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
First-Year Composition II (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2023)
2019-Present Adjunct Faculty, Atlanta Technical College
Composition and Rhetoric (Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022,
Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
Fundamentals of English (Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
Learning Support English (Summer 2019, Fall 2019)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018 – 2019 Research Assistant, Dr. Melissa McLeod, Department of English, Georgia State University.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2020 – Present Associate Director of Research and Community, Georgia State Writing Studio
2019 – 2020 Operations Manager, Georgia State Writing Studio
2016 – 2019 Tutor, Georgia State Writing Studio
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
2019- 2020 First Chair, 2020 New Voices Graduate Conference Committee
2019 – 2020 Vice President, Graduate English Association, Georgia State University
2018 Writing Studio Staff Training Coordinator
2018 Marketing Chair, 2019 New Voices Graduate Conference Committee
AWARDS AND HONORS
2020 High Pass on PhD Comprehensive Exams
2019 Tutor Researcher of the Year, Georgia State Writing Studio
2017, 2018, 2019 International Experiences Scholarship, Georgia State University
2016 The Janice E. Cole Scholarship Award, Hood College