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Nicole Trobaugh Atkinson
PhD Candidate

Nicole is a second year doctoral student in the Department of English at University of Kentucky. She is currently moving through her exam year and working on what she hopes is her first publication studying the presence of pastoral and anti-pastoral landscapes in the poetry of war poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edward Thomas. 

Contact Information
nmtr223@uky.edu
1222 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6988
Education
M.A.--Indiana State University, 2013, Major Field: English (Literature Emphasis) Thesis: "'All Things Forget the Forest:’ The Convergence of War and the Pastoral in Edward Thomas’s Body of Work“” B.A.--Indiana University Southeast, 2010, cum laude; Major Field: English (Emphasis in Writing and Literature)
Research Interests
  • 20th Century British and Irish Poetry
  • Trauma Literature and Trauma Studies
  • World War I Poetry
  • Social Theory
  • Cultural Theory
  • British modernism
  • Pastoral
Affiliations
  • English
  • Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • ASLE