Research

Research

Nic’s scholarly work exists at the confluence of disability activism and performance aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on the way that theatre artists can disrupt, challenge, and otherwise push back against ableism and other forms of oppression.

Nic’s doctoral dissertation combined theories and methods from Disability, Theatre, and Performance Studies to examine the work of theatre makers with intellectual disabilities in the United States.

Nic is also the co-editor, with Toyin Falola, of the volume, Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity, published by University of Rochester Press, and he has authored reviews for DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly.

EDITED VOLUME

Co-Editor, Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity, with Toyin Falola. University of Rochester Press, 2021.

Peer Reviewed Chapters

“Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Aesthetic Nervousness, and Postcolonial Resistance in the Dramas of Wole Soyinka” Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity. University of Rochester Press, 2021.

Co-Author, “Africanizing Disability Studies,” with Toyin Falola, Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity. University of Rochester Press, 2021.

Co-Author, “Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview,” with Toyin Falola and Anna Lee Carothers, Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity. University of Rochester Press, 2021.

REVIEWS

“Review of Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theatre by Katherine Schaap Williams” Disability Studies Quarterly Blog, dsqblog.com, August 6, 2022.

“Review of Disability and Development in Burkina Faso: Critical Perspectives by Lara Bezzina” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 41, No. 1 (Winter 2021).