Bio: Nicole Lowman is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Academic and Professional Writing Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), where they earned their PhD in 2022. They previously worked as a Research Assistant in the Community-based User Experience lab in UB’s Department of Engineering Education (2019-21) and the Coordinator for the Academic and Professional Writing Program (2017-18).

They are a Co-Vice President of the Kurt Vonnegut Society and served on the Board of Directors for the Northeast Modern Language Association and was the President of NeMLA’s Graduate Student Caucus (2016-2019). They were recently nominated by UB for the national K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders award and by UB’s English Department for the Excellence in Teaching Award.