Nichole DeWall, Ph.D.

Professor of English
Director, Honors Program
Provost Fellow
Carnegie Hall 211
(618) 537-6495
nbdewall@mckendree.edu
Education
Ph.D., English, Northeastern University (2008)
M.A., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2001)
B.A., English, St. Olaf College (2000)
Director, Honors Program
Provost Fellow
Carnegie Hall 211
(618) 537-6495
nbdewall@mckendree.edu
Education
Ph.D., English, Northeastern University (2008)
M.A., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2001)
B.A., English, St. Olaf College (2000)
Writing
DeWall, Nichole. “Break It to Make It: The Case for Mid-Class Movement.” The Teaching Professor, September
2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “An AI Podcast Starter Kit.” The Teaching Professor, August 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “Creating Terrific Readers through Terrible Drawings.” The Teaching Professor, July 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “Snark, Schisms, and Choosing Sides: The Hybrid Faculty Meeting.” The Teaching Professor, June 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “The Best Time to Prep for Fall? Right Now.” The Teaching Professor, May 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “A Simple Hack for Focused Discussions: The Follow-Up List.” The Teaching Professor, April 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “Tired of TED Talks? Try Commencement Addresses.” The Teaching Professor, March 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “Please Talk about Your Kids at Work—Even If It Feels Weird.” The Teaching Professor, February 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “My Favorite Classroom Moments of 2024.” The Teaching Professor, January 2025.
DeWall, Nichole. “Hey, New Professor: Let’s Talk about Your Office Door.” The Teaching Professor, December 2024.
DeWall, Nichole. “‘So these Lines may reach to future times’: Pandemic Teaching with John Davies’ Triumph of Death.” Teaching with Primary Sources, March 16, 2022. Accessed January 10, 2023.
DeWall, Nichole. “The Plague in Romeo and Juliet: ‘The Day Is Hot.’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 34, no. 4 (2021): 5–7.
DeWall, Nichole. “A Skull, a Screen, and a Quarantine: Teaching Shakespeare During the Pandemic.” The Teaching Professor, March 15, 2021. Reprinted in Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice, edited by Jon Crylen, 39–42. 2021.
DeWall, Nichole. “Shakespeare Advice to Writers? Use the Pandemic (Sometimes).” Bookanista, March 22, 2021. Accessed March 23, 2021.
DeWall, Nichole. “I, William Shakespeare, Also Went Through a Pandemic.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, May 26, 2021. Accessed January 17, 2023.
DeWall, Nichole. “Lucha Libre and Shakespeare: A Novel Approach.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, special issue Bridging the Gap? Digital Media in the Humanities, edited by Cameron McFarlane and Kristin Lucas, Spring 2020: 14–17.
DeWall, Nichole. Review of This Is Shakespeare, by Emma Smith. English: Journal of the English Association 69, no. 263 (December 2019).
DeWall, Nichole. “The Anxiety of Influence: Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet and Kenneth Branagh’s A Midwinter’s Tale.” Cinematic Codes Review 2, no. 1 (2017): 44–60.
DeWall, Nichole. “Into the Archives: Using EEBO in the Early Modern Literature Classroom.” In Digital Technology & the Literature Classroom, edited by Tim Hetland. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017.
DeWall, Nichole. “‘Let’s Go Hand in Hand’: Roman Comedy and The Comedy of Errors.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature, edited by Sean Keilen and Nick Moschovakis, 279–83. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2017.
DeWall, Nichole. “Millennials by Heart: Memorization as Active Learning Strategy for the Smartphone Generation.” Journal of Excellence in College Teaching 27, no. 4 (2017): 77–91.
DeWall, Nichole. “Anxiety in the Text: Ideology, Feminism, and Erotic Triangles in Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen.” The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 2 (2016): 135–53.
DeWall, Nichole. “‘Love Bade Me Enter’: George Herbert’s Eucharistic Poetry.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal 8, no. 3 (2016): 68–73.
DeWall, Nichole. “‘Like a shadow, / I’ll ever dwell’: The Jailer’s Daughter as Ariadne in The Two Noble Kinsmen.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 46, no. 1 (2013): 15–26.
DeWall, Nichole. “Into the Woods: Dead Poets Society and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema, edited by Marlisa Santos. New York: Scarecrow, 2013.
DeWall, Nichole. “‘Sweet recreation barr’d’: The Case for Playgoing in Plague-Time.” In Representing the Plague in Early Modern England, edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest Gilman. New York: Routledge, 2012.