About
Nicole is a Ph.D. student in the Second Language Teaching and Acquisition (SLAT) program at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on teacher knowledge and critical digital literacies in the second language writing classroom. She has taught composition and English as a second and foreign language in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain. She currently works as an instructional designer in the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Arizona, where she develops flipped courses for international dual degree programs, and she also serves as the managing editor of ITLT journal. In her spare time, she loves to visit places she’s never been, read historical fiction, sleep in late, crochet, and do lots of yoga.
Education
Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (defended October 2019)
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Dissertation: “Teaching Digital Literacies: Knowledges, Practices, and Resources in Second Language Writing”
M.A. Applied Linguistics, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), 2008
Rijksuniversiteit, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Thesis: “Do They See How They Read? An Investigation into the Nature of L2 Strategic Academic Reading Competence and Metacognition”
B.A. Philosophy, Program of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
