Nicole Dib

Nicole Dib is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Southern Utah University, where she has been employed since 2020. She earned her PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2020.

• Specializations: Contemporary Ethnic U.S. Literature, Critical Race Studies, Native American Studies, Comics Studies, Prison Pedagogy

Her research examines how marginalized authors reimagine canonical genres, particularly through lenses of race, mobility, and decolonial practice. Recent work interrogates:

• Road trip narratives as frameworks for analyzing racialized immobility in African American and Native literature
• Feminist and decolonial strategies in Indigenous comics
• Speculative fiction's role in resisting oppression

Key trends in her scholarship include:

• Critical dismantling of white masculine road trip tropes
• Centering Indigenous storytelling as transformative act
• Intersectional analysis of race, gender, and incarceration

She actively contributes to:

• Academic journals like Literary Geographies and MELUS
• Edited volumes such as The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature
• Comics studies through chapters in Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics