Faculty Focus: Publications: Willey, N

Nicole Willey, PhD 

Professor of English

Books, Peer Reviewed

Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. Eds. Justine Dymond

              and Nicole Willey. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013. Print.

Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed

“The Benefits and Injuries of Midlife Mothering through an Autoethnographic Lens: Or,

Don’t Call Me Grandma.” Middle Grounds: Essays on Midlife Mothering. Eds. Kathy Mantas and Lorinda Peterson. Demeter Press. 2018. 130-146.

“Raising Men: My Two Boys, Co-Parenting, and the Fight against Culture.” Mothers

              and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge. Eds. Besi Brillian Muhonja and Wanda

              Thomas Bernard. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2016. 270-286. Print.

“Non-Traditional Fathering in Botswana: Alexander McCall Smith’s Vision for

              Nurturing Paternity in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series.” Pops in Pop

              Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Modern Family.  Ed. Liz Podnieks.

              New York: Palgrave, 2016. 213-32. Print.

“In Search of Our Mothers’ Memoirs: Form and Function in African American

              Motherhood in Letters.” Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. 

              Eds. Justine Dymond and Nicole Willey.  Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013.

              233-60. Print.

“Introduction: Creating the Collection.” Justine Dymond, co-author. Motherhood

              Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives.  Eds. Justine Dymond and Nicole

              Willey. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter P, 2013. 1-30. Print.

Journal Articles, Peer Reviewed

“Poetry as Memoir: Toi Derricotte’s Natural Birth and Redefining Motherhood.” 

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community

Involvement.7.1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 136-146. Print.

“Writing, Teaching, and Rejection.” Pennsylvania English 37 (Spring 2015): 39-45.

Print.

Willey, Nicole L. "Parenting Policies and Culture in Academia and Beyond: Making It While Mothering (and Fathering) in the Academy, and What COVID-19 Has to Do with It." JMI vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. pp. 201-217.

Willey, Nicole L. “Mothers and Sons.” The Routledge Companion to Motherhood.  Eds. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles. Routledge, 2020, pp. 308-327. 

Willey, Nicole L. “Introduction.” Feminist Fathering/Fathering Feminists: New Definitions and Directions. Eds. Nicole L.  Willey and Dan Friedman. Demeter Press, 2020.  

Willey, Nicole L. “Choose Your Own Fathering Style: Neil Patrick Harris and Feminist Fathering.”  Feminist Fathering/Fathering Feminists: New Definitions and Directions. Eds. Nicole L. Willey and Dan Friedman. Demeter Press, 2020, pp. 181-193.