Scholar & Practitioner
Dr. Nicole A. Bishop
Professor • Writer • AI-Era Educator • Embodied Humanities Scholar
I teach writing, literature, and the humanities for a moment of profound change — helping students think clearly, write with purpose, and use new technologies with judgment rather than dependence.
Positioning
An unusual combination — by design.
I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and have spent my career in classrooms and across disciplines: composition and rhetoric, literature, women's studies, civility and public dialogue, and the creative arts. What ties it together is a conviction that learning is embodied — that minds are formed in voices, bodies, communities, and conversation, not in isolation from them.
Today that work meets a new frontier. As artificial intelligence reshapes how students read, write, and think, I help institutions and learners meet that change deliberately — preserving rigor and human judgment while teaching the tools honestly. I am equally at home leading a first-year writing seminar and articulating an ethics of AI in education to a faculty senate.
What I do
Four threads, one practice.
Teaching
Pedagogy that respects the learner
Process-over-product writing instruction, online and hybrid pedagogy, and assignment design that develops thinking — not just output. My teaching philosophy, sample assignments, and syllabi.
Courses
Composition, literature & the humanities
First-year writing, literature, women's and gender studies, interdisciplinary seminars, and civility and dialogue work — courses I have taught and am ready to teach.
Scholarship & Creative Work
Embodied humanities & beyond
Conference work, writing projects, music and composition, the civility institute, and interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses the line between research and creative practice.
Media & Projects
Public, future-facing work
Age of Intellect, educational AI experiments, lectures, and public-facing intellectual work — the part of my practice that reaches beyond the classroom.
Currently
Featured work: the National Sports Museum
A year-long creative engagement as copywriter, content creator, and AI lead — writing the museum's promotional materials, producing original songs, and designing its AI-driven immersive exhibit.
A focus institutions are looking for
Teaching with AI — intelligently, ethically.
Many departments are scrambling to find faculty who can articulate what responsible AI use in the humanities actually looks like. I have been doing that work in practice: ethical use, AI-enhanced composition, critical thinking under automation, process-centered pedagogy, and multimodal writing.
For hiring committees
Everything you need, nothing you don't.
My full résumé is here on the site. For additional writing samples, references, or a conversation, please reach out.