Nicola Waldron

Nicola Waldron is a Senior Instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina’s McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. She teaches undergraduate writing and literature courses while pursuing active creative projects in poetry, memoir, and fiction.

Education

• MFA in Writing and Literature, Bennington College, 2013
• BA (Hons) / MA (Cantab), English, University of Cambridge, 1988

Research & Creative Work

Nicola writes across genres—poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, drama, and children’s narratives—centering on personal narratives that interrogate generational, geographic, and familial schisms. Her work explores the psychological aftermath of trauma, the silences that follow rupture, and the processes of survival and healing. She is currently revising a poetry-and-essay collection, a memoir on working in London theatre during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, and another memoir chronicling her in-vitro fertilization experience.

Her practice is further informed by training in Counseling Psychology and Advanced Yoga Studies, disciplines that infuse both her creative practice and pedagogy.

Campus & Classroom Engagement

She teaches introductory and advanced writing courses (ENGL 101, 102, 200, 282, 360, 460) as well as British literature surveys, fostering deep observation, creative risk-taking, and interdisciplinary inquiry among students.