Office:  Ratcliffe 226
Phone:  (757) 594-8896
Email:   jnichols@cnu.edu

Areas of Teaching:
Composition, American Film, Interdisciplinary approaches to early twentieth century American culture, Satire, Ezra Pound

Areas of Research/Publication:
Film Studies; Modernism; Reception Theory; Approaches to Teaching Reading and Writing

In particular: Institutional History of Film, Drama, and Literature at the beginning of the twentieth century; Film Appreciation Movements; Ezra Pound and Theories of Reading and Writing.

Book Manuscript(in process): "The Amateur Moderns: Extreme Pedagogies for the Twentieth Century" - An exploration of modernism's engagement with popular culture through advice books on reading, writing, and viewing for college literature students, community theater productions, and cinema clubs.


Areas of Service:
University: Film Studies Committee (Director), University Curriculum Committee, University Assessment Committee, Dean's Ad-Hoc Committee on Writing (Co-Chair), University Library Committee (Vice-Chair); First-Year Faculty Advisor Department: Composition Committee, Departmental Curriculum Committee, Search Committee, Al Millar and Sancetta Scholarship Committees (Chair), English Major Faculty Advisor.

Community: Speaker at Newport News Public Library Film Festival on 1960s cinema; Adjudicator for regional high school theater productions.