Molly Nichols

Molly Nichols is a CTE Intern for the 2024-2025 academic year and a doctoral candidate in the English department, primarily focused on the medieval period. As an intern, she is helping to design and offer opportunities that support graduate students' professional development. Molly's current research engages issues of clerical authority, lay reading practices, and theological texts written in the vernacular in thirteenth and fourteenth century England. Other interests include scholasticism, literacy studies, medieval vernacularity, devotional literature, saints' lives, Chaucer, Langland, and science fiction.