Nichole E. Stanford

Nichole E. Stanford
  • Faculty
  • Assistant Professor of English
  • Director, Writing Lab

Biography

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.

Education

PhD, City University of New York, 2012
MPh, City University of New York, 2009
MA, University of New Orleans, 2003

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Pedagogy
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Composition
  • Teacher training
  • Cajun English and nonstandard Englishes
  • Language prejudice, linguicism, and translanguaging
  • Code switching and code meshing
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Power theory
  • Resistance and dissent
  • National education trends
  • Early American literature
  • Writer's block

Publications

  • Good God but You Smart: Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns. Logan, Utah: Utah SUP, 2016.
  • 鈥淧edagogy of Reinvention: Paulo Freire in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Education.鈥 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.
  • 鈥淐omplainstorming (Brainstorming with Complaints).鈥 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.
  • 鈥淧ublishing in the Contact Zone: Strategies from the Cajun Canaille.鈥 Code-Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, and Performance. Ed. Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2011.