Dr Nicholas Monk

National Teaching Fellow 2013 Dr Nicholas Monk is Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) and recipient of Warwick's 2008-09 Butterworth Award for Teaching Excellence. Before receiving his PhD from Warwick in 2007, he studied at Rutgers University in the US where he received an MA in 2003. Nicholas is lead author on Open-space Learning: a Transdisciplinary Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2011). His other research interests include contemporary American fiction, and performance and performativity. He is editor of a collection on interdisciplinary approaches to Cormac McCarthy (Routledge 2011), and has contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (2013). He has recently led on the development of a suite of interdisciplinary modules for Warwick that are designed to be wholly 'cross-faculty 'meaning that, with departmental permission, any undergraduate student from any department can take one or more. Examples include modules on human-animal studies, applied imagination, re-inventing education, and climate change. Nicholas co-taught his own interdisciplinary module, Forms of Identity, with Monash University in Melbourne, during Spring 2013. In Warwick's Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, he is convenor of the core module 20th Century North American Literature, for honours students. Other modules he has taught recently in the Department include the practical, without chairs , version of Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of His Time; a module of his own design, Drama, Performance, and Identity post-1955; and the MA module, Literatures of the American Southwest. Nicholas runs workshops across the University faculties for departments as diverse as Chemistry, Business, Theatre, and Sociology. He also works with the Learning and Development Centre on themes such as networking, workshop facilitation, and teaching for creativity. He is supervising PhDs on both American literature and the function of emotional intelligence in business training.