Dr. Valérie De Courville Nicol, PhD
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2172 |
Email: | valerie.decourvillenicol@concordia.ca |
Website(s): |
Academia.edu Research Gate Routledge Palgrave Macmillan |

Education
PhD Sociology (Carleton University)
Research activities
1. Sociological dimensions of emotional experience, particularly anxious experience
2. Mind/body/society interface
3. New orientations to everyday problems of living, health, and wellbeing
4. Popular emotional discourses and literatures, particularly self-focused
5. Morality, ethics, and the self in social life
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. Sociology of literature
4. Classical social theory
Areas of graduate teaching:
1. Self and subjectivity
2. Contemporary theory