Dr. Valérie De Courville Nicol, PhD

Thesis supervisor Accepting inquiries

Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Thesis supervision details

Supervised programs: Sociology (MA), Social and Cultural Analysis (PhD)

Research areas: emotions, self and subjectivity, fear, insecurity, anxiety, desire, self-help, psychology, book reading, emotional-discourse theory and analysis

Contact information

Email:

valerie.decourvillenicol@concordia.ca

Websites:

Academia.edu
Research Gate
Routledge
Palgrave Macmillan

Biography

Education

PhD Sociology, Carleton University, 1999

Research activities

1. Sociology of emotions, self and subjectivity

2. Insecurities and anxieties in cultural problematizations of social life

3. Popularity of cultural objects, appraisal and desire

4. Self-focussed popular literatures (e.g., self-help, memoirs, popular psychology)

5. Mind/body/society interfaces

6. Theory and method in socioemotional analysis

Teaching activities

Courses / Syllabi

Areas of undergraduate teaching:

1. Sociology of Emotions

2. Sociology of Fear and Risk

3. Understanding Popularity: Cultural Objects and Desire

4. Classical Social Theory

Areas of graduate teaching:

1. Self and Subjectivity

2. Contemporary Theory

3. PhD Seminar