Nicole Erin Morse

Associate Professor

Language, Literacy and Culture

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

They/Them/Theirs/Themselves

About

Nicole Erin Morse is an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and former Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Their research focuses on LGBTQ cultural production, and they have published in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Discourse, Jump Cut, and Porn Studies. Their book Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art was published by Duke University Press.

Research interests

LGBTQ Media Production, Trans Studies, Carcerality, Spectatorship

Teaching interests

Media Studies, LGBTQ Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Humanistic Methods,

Education

  • Ph D, Cinema and Media Studies — University of Chicago (2018)
  • BA, Film Production — SUNY Purchase College (2010)

Presentations

  • Refusing Erasure: Lessons from Queer Prison Comix Artists in a Fascist Era 2026 College Art Association · Paper