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Nichole E. Stanford

Assistant Professor of English
Director, Writing Lab

Picture of Nichole StanfordPhD, City University of New York, 2012
MPh, City University of New York, 2009
MA, University of New Orleans, 2003

Office: Dupré 155
Email: Nichole.stanford@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-501-9770

Teaching/Research Areas

Pedagogy, critical pedagogy, composition, teacher training, Cajun English, nonstandard Englishes, language prejudice, linguicism, translanguaging, code switching, code meshing, sociolinguistics, power theory, resistance, dissent, national education trends, early American literature, writer's block

Recent Courses Taught
509: Practicum for Grad Teachers
501: Pedagogy for Grad Teachers
490: Capstone for English Majors
556: Critical Pedagogy and the Transformation in the Wilderness
115: Honors Freshman Composition

Noteworthy

Dr. Stanford is the author of Good God but You Smart: Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns, a book that takes Cajun English as a case study in examining the role of language prejudice in reinforcing nearly all forms of prejudice in schools and universities. Having trained faculty since 2007, Dr. Stanford studies data-based best teaching practices and tracks U.S. educational trends. She collaborates with local educators on alternative education programs and conducts workshops on classroom management and conflict resolution.

Selected Publications

Good God but You Smart: Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns. Logan, Utah: Utah SUP, 2016.

“Pedagogy of Reinvention: Paulo Freire in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Education.” with Gail Russell. Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, Volume 3. Social Issues in Education Series. Ed. Jon Pedersen and Samuel Totten. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014. 71-93.

“Complainstorming (Brainstorming with Complaints).” Practical Composition: Exercises for the English Classroom from Working Instructors. Ed. Russell Brickey, Laura L. Beadling, and Evelyn Martens. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Co., Inc., 2014. 106-107.

“Publishing in the Contact Zone: Strategies from the Cajun Canaille.” Code-Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, and Performance. Ed. Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2011.