Nicole López, Ph.D.

Nicole López, Ph.D., focuses her teaching interests on classical literature, epic poetry and the 19th-20th century. In her teaching, she emphasizes the classroom as a humanities laboratory, offering students a community of intellectual camaraderie, debate, balanced dissent and a highly collaborative environment. Her research is concerned with the modern literatures of Europe and America, and with poetry and poetics (specialization: 20th-century Italy).

López explores topics such as phenomenology, New Materialism, objects in literature, anthropomorphism, memory and the limits of language. Her current research project, The Politics of the Object: Necessary Counter-Myths in 20th Century Literature (in progress) examines the literary uses of the phenomenological world as foundational counter-myths to the rise of 20^th century European political regimes (British, American, French, Spanish and Italian literatures).