John Nichols
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Effective Teaching
McMurran Hall 201C
Biography
Education
- Ph D in English, University of Pittsburgh
- MA in English, University of Pittsburgh
- BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Richmond
Dr. Nichols is Associate Professor of English, Director of Film Studies, and Director of the Center for Effective Teaching.
Teaching
American film, digital humanities, cultural constructions of value, film genre. modernism, roaring twenties, film and literature adaptation.
Research
Film appreciation and education efforts 1915-1960, censorship, cinematic depictions of waste and reuse, modernist theories of composition and reception and their impact upon disciplinary formation.