Biography
Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt is a former doctoral fellow for the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her dissertation analyzes pre-disciplinary modes of knowledge acquisition and how these mixed methods compete with and compliment each other in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. She has attended two funded seminars at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and she has presented her work at several conferences, including SAA and RSA. In 2018, she received a College of Liberal Arts Fasken Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Accomplishments
- “Researching the Archive Dissertation Seminar,” Folger Shakespeare Library, 2017-2018
- “A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas,” Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015
- Dr. William Barzak Memorial Scholarship (sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature), 2015
- Fasken Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2018
- Teaching Fellow, Academy for Future Faculty, 2017-2018
- Senior Peer Teaching Mentor, 2017-2018
Research Interests
- Early Modern Studies
- History of the Book and Textual Studies
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2019
- M.A., Western Illinois University, 2014
- B.A., Truman State University, 2009