Nichole Nomura

Nichole Nomura is currently an Associate Director of the Stanford Literary Lab and a lecturer in the Department of English at Stanford. Before this, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) as a part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Data that Divides Us.” She received her Ph.D. in English from Stanford University with a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education (M.A.).

Nichole studies how literature teaches and is taught, English pedagogy, science fiction, and Young Adult Literature, using methods from the digital humanities, literary criticism, and education. Her current book project, Curricular Reading, argues for the affordances of reading literature like we do curricula. She is also working on research collaborations to co-design digital humanities curriculum for middle school and to map the disciplinary landscape of ELA in secondary and post-secondary curricula.