Nicole Files-Thompson

Nicole Files-Thompson is an  Associate Professor  of  Communication  and  Chair  of  the  department  of  mass  communication  at  Lincoln  University.  She entered academia after having worked in television as a  producer  and  writer.  As a Frederick Douglass Doctoral fellow at Howard University, she earned graduate certificates  in distance  learning, women’s  studies  and  Preparing  Future  Faculty. 

Her interdisciplinary research engages the theory, practice, and epistemology of marginalized groups through  interdisciplinary  paradigms  and  the  scholarship  of  teaching  and  learning.  She also focuses on constituting, touring, and  empowering  sexual  identities,  via  the  critical  questions:  What  constitutes  sexual  identities?  How  do  spaces,  (touring),  negotiate  sexual  identities?  How are  sexual  identities  empowered/self-empowered? 

As a teacher-scholar,  Nicole  Files-Thompson has  developed  and  taught  24  courses  across  the  communications  discipline,  delivered  numerous  lectures  and  conference  presentations,  helped  to  develop  and  implement  mass  communications curriculum,  undergraduate  research,  study  abroad,  and  pathways  to  graduate  school  for  students  of  color.  She was  awarded  the  Outstanding  Ph.D.  Dissertation award  in  Fethiye  Turkey.  Her professional  engagement  includes  holding  leadership  positions  in  the  National  Communications  Association  (NCA),  and  the Eastern  Communications  Association  (ECA).

Education

PhD Mass Communications and Media Studies, Howard University

Graduate Certificate Women’s Studies, Howard University

Graduate Certificate Preparing Future Faculty, Howard University

MA Moving Image Studies, Georgia State University

BA Film Production, Howard University

Publications

Files-Thompson, N. (2018). Fostering classroom dialogue through Beyoncé’s Formation. Women & Language, 40 (forthcoming fall issue).

Eguchi, S., Files-Thompson. N. & Calafell, B.M. (2018). Queer(of color) aesthetics: fleeting Moments of transgression in VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood season 2. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 35 (2), 180-193. DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1385822​

Cupid, J. & Files-Thompson, N. (2016). The “Visual Album:” Beyoncé, feminism, and digital spaces. In, Trier-Bieniek, A (Ed), The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and  Feminism (pp. 94-108). Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing.

Eguchi, S., Calafell, B. M., & Files-Thompson, N. (2014).  Intersectionality and Quare theory: Fantasizing male same-sex relationships in Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom, Communication, Culture, & Critique, 7, 371-389.

Files-Thompson, N. (2014). Why Did I Get Married - to her? Women’s place in middle-class marriage. In R. Jackson & J. Bell (Eds.), Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, and Sexuality (pp. 129-140). New York, NY: Routledge.

Files-Thompson, N. (2013). An intersectional analysis of sexuality in the tourist space. In M. Kozak & N. Kozak (Eds.), Aspects of Tourist Behavior (pp. 139-156). New Castle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Files-Thompson, N. & Starosta, W.J. (2012). Sexuality on the beach: Understanding  empowerment and the fluidity of power in the experiences of African American women on Jamaican holiday.  In M.Kozak & N. Kozak (Eds.), Proceedings 7^th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure (pp. 1196-1202). Ankara, Turkey:Anatolia.