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.