Dr. Valérie De Courville Nicol, PhD

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Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Thesis supervision details

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

Research areas: Sociology of Emotions, Cultural Sociology, Self and Subjectivity, Social Theory

Contact information

Email:

valerie.decourvillenicol@concordia.ca

Websites:

Routledge
Palgrave Macmillan
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Presses de l'Université Laval

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Biography

Education

PhD Sociology, Carleton University, 1999

Research activities

Sociology of emotions, self, and subjectivity

Contemporary insecurities, anxieties, and changing ways of feeling

Cultural objects, popularity, appraisal, and desire

Therapeutic cultures, self-help, memoir, and popular psychology

Mind–body–society interfaces and embodied emotional experience

Cultural-emotional theory and analysis; emotives and emotional in/capacities

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