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Nicole Costantini

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., communications studies, Louisiana State University
  • M.A., rhetorical studies, Hofstra University
  • B.A., speech communications, Iona College

Credentials

  • Professor of Liberal Arts, 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Instructor, 2017–18, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Graduate Assistant, 2013–17, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Adjunct Instructor, 2012–18, Speech Communication Studies Department, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

Organizations

  • National Communication Association
  • Southern States Communication Association

Publications and presentations

  • Costantini, Nicole M. “Bikes and Bodies: Ghost Bike Memorials as Performances of Mourning, Warning, and Protest.” Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 22-36.
  • Costantini, Nicole M. Review of The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock, & Abigail Shinn. The Journal of Popular Culture, no. 4, 2016, pp. 481-484.
  • “Bikes and Bodies: Ghost Bike Memorials as Performances of Grief,” Professor Emeritus Andy King Colloquy, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, February 2018
  • “The Running Down of the Clock” (performance), Southern States Communication Association Conference, Montgomery, AL, April 2019
  • “Milk Does the [White] Body Good: An Analysis of Milk Consumption as Symbolism for White Supremacy” (paper), Southern States Communication Association, Montgomery, AL, April 2019
  • “Photographic Memory” (performance), National Communication Association National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2018
  • “Emotional Labor and Staging Trauma, Death, and Memorialization through Ethnographic Performance” (paper), National Communication Association National Conference, Salt Lake City UT, November 2018
  • “Memorialization and Communitas: An Exploration of the Social Network and Digital Legacy of Mickey Shunick’s Ghost Bike Memorial” (paper), National Communication Association National Conference, Dallas, TX, November 2017
  • “Digital Dirty Laundry” (performance), National Communication Association National Conference, Dallas, TX, November 2017
  • “Grandmama Says” (performance), Southern States Communication Association, Greenville, SC, April 2017
  • “Silver Linings Playbook (Sweded Edition)” (video), National Communication Association National Conference, coproduced with Colin Whitworth, Philadelphia, PA, November 2016
  • “(Re)Examination: A Historiography Based Counter-Performance of Tattooed-Women’s ‘Biographical Narratives’” (performance), National Communication Association National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2016
  • “The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials” (paper, Top Student Papers in Performance Studies Panel), Southern States Communication Association Conference, Austin, TX, April 2016
  • “Unearthing the Performance of Urban Roadside Memorials: Understanding the Ghost Bike Memorial in New York City” (paper, Top Papers in Performance Studies Panel), Western States Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2016
  • “White Bicycles in the City” (performance, Spotlight Performance Panel), Western States Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2016
  • “Embodying the Undead: An Ethnographic Examination of the New Jersey Zombie Walk” (paper) National Communication Association National Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November 2015