Robin Gray Nicks
Robin Gray Nicks
Teaching Professor
Dr. Robin Gray Nicks regularly teaches courses in rhetoric and writing and American literature, as well as children’s and young adult literature. Her research typically focuses on Edgar A. Poe and literary fairy tales from across the globe. Recently, she’s presented on parasocial relationships in online spaces, fairy tales and psychoanalysis as represented in anime, and the power of female friendships in children’s and young adult literature and culture.
Education
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- Ph.D., University of Florida
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- M.A., University of Kentucky
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- Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
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- B.A., University of Kentucky
Courses Regularly Taught
- English 255: Public Writing
- English/Women, Gender, and Sexuality 332: Women in American Literature
- English/Africana Studies 333: Race and Ethnicity in American Literature
- English 339: Children’s/Young Adult Literature
- English 355: Rhetoric and Writing