Terra Nicoll

Terra Leigh Nicoll Joined NYU Shanghai as an English for Academic Purposes Lecturer in 2023. Her courses cover topics on a variety of social issues with her two current courses focusing on disability studies and tourism.

Before coming to NYUSH, Terra was an English Language Fellow with the U.S. State Department in Uzbekistan where she taught English for Specific purposes and conducted teacher training. As part of her teacher training, she planned and facilitated 1-day conferences with practical workshops for local teachers. Terra has also taught English in a variety of levels in Turkey and the United States.

Terra’s research interests have always centered around the intangible aspects of the human experience such as belonging, affect, and emotions and how these appear in our lives and intersect with other aspects of our social identities. In her first Master’s, she focused on gender issues in language and language learning. Recently, she pursued a second Master’s where she completed her thesis on Home and mobility. Specifically looking at frequently mobile academic migrants and their home affect when they are just settling into a new domicile.

Terra is interested in doing more research and collaborating on projects. 

Education

• MA, Social Anthropology (Expected 2024)
  University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• MA, Teaching Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
  Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)
• BA, Linguistics (Minors in Russian Area Studies and Arabic)
  Montclair State University 
• AA, Liberal Arts
  Northern Virginia Community College