Biography
Nicole Watts (she/her) is the Assistant Director of Graduate Programs at the Graham School. In this role, she helps manage outreach and advising for the Graham School’s educational programming, specifically serving as the lead advisor to students in the Master of Liberal Arts program within the Graham School. You can reach Nicole at nicolewatts@uchicago.edu.
While originally from New York, Nicole pursued the majority of her education in North Carolina; she holds a B.A. in French and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as well as an M.Sc. in History from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Nicole’s dissertation focused on internal Orientalism and representations of the American South in popular media of the late twentieth century, although she is perennially interested in all research that explores the role of media in national myth-making.
In her free time, Nicole can often be found haunting antique malls and desperately trying to teach herself how to create mixed media collages. She’s extremely passionate about Chicago architecture (especially American Foursquares!), and she enjoys stumbling across new neighborhoods and hot dog joints.
Which Graham course would you most like to take and why?
Nicole would love to join Jacqueline Victor’s Flaubert’s Sentimental Education course, as Madame Bovary is one of her favorite novels, and she is fascinated by the exploration of French romanticism through the lens of realism, especially within its relevant sociopolitical context.