Nic Nusbaumer

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Institutional Rhetorics, Institutional Ethnography, Composition Pedagogy

Writing and Rhetoric PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Selected Publications

Gibson, K., Green, M., Nusbaumer, N., Martinez, T., & Wiggins, J. (2024; under review). Rhetorical Elision of Extractive Labor Practices through the Discourses of Community and Passion for Research in Graduate School. College Composition & Communication, x(x).

“I Won American Idol.” Coda: Community Writing and Creative Work (Community Literacy Journal). 2023.

Monitoring Policy Post-Implementation: Rhetorical Chorus and the Limits of Opaque Policy Evaluation Frameworks. Working Papers in Language and Linguistics, 10. 2022.

Grants and Fellowships

Jakob Volkman Human Rights Fellow, 2023-2024

Digital Chicago Grant, Lake Forest College, 2017

Courses Taught

ENGH 100: Composition for Multilingual Writers

ENGH 101: Composition

ENGH 302: Advanced Composition

Education

M.A. English, Western Illinois University, 2019
B.A. English, Lake Forest College, 2017

Recent Presentations

“Labor and Precarity: Graduate Students and the Neoliberal Academy.” (Co-Presentation). 2024 CCCC Annual Convention, “Writing Abundance: Celebrating 75 Years of Conversations about Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication, and Literacy,” Spokane, WA, April 3-6, 2024.

“Disconnections: What are the Effects of Compliance in Graduate Labor Systems?” (Co-Presentation). ATTW: On Celebration & Compliance, Reflection & Resistance, Baltimore, MD, June 7-9, 2023.

“Ideologizing Distance and Academic Self-Trolling.” RSA 20th Biennial Conference: The Charge for Change, May 27, 2022.

“Yaris.” Poetry IV Panel: Yaris, Thriller, & Lana Del Rey: Poetry of Tech & Pop Culture. Pop Culture Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019.

"Ambiguous Enlistment: Relinquished Identities in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy." Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM), Northern Illinois University, April 12-13, 2019.

"Progressive! Or Not: Heteronormative Privilege in John Hamburg’s I Love You, Man (2009) and Nicole Holofcener’s Friends with Money (2006)." Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM), Northern Illinois University, April 12-13, 2019.