Nic Nusbaumer

Nic Nusbaumer is a Graduate Lecturer in the Department of English at George Mason University, specializing in Institutional Rhetorics, Institutional Ethnography, and Composition Pedagogy. His research critically examines graduate student labor dynamics within neoliberal academic systems. He holds an M.A. in English from Western Illinois University (2019) and a B.A. in English from Lake Forest College (2017).

He has received the Jakob Volkman Human Rights Fellow (2023-2024) and a Digital Chicago Grant (2017). His recent presentations include explorations of labor precarity in graduate education and ideological tensions in academic systems. Courses taught include ENGH 100, 101, and 302, focusing on composition for multilingual writers and advanced rhetoric.

Nusbaumer’s publications address extractive labor practices in academia and policy evaluation frameworks. His creative work appears in journals like Community Literacy Journal. Though no lab affiliations are listed, his work engages interdisciplinary collaborations at the intersection of rhetoric, policy, and education.