Dr. Nicole A. Bishop — AI-Era Educator and Comparative Literature Scholar
Comparative Literature · The AI Turn
The humanities aren't dying.
We keep teaching them as if the world didn't change.
Dr. Nicole A. Bishop — Professor · Comparative Literature PhD · AI-Era Educator
Why this combination is rare
These rarely share one CV. Mine has held them together for three decades — a scholar who reads closely, builds with new tools, and teaches the whole person. The intersection isn't a gimmick. It's the argument.
Trained at
- Amherst College
- University of Michigan
- Institut Catholique de Paris
- La Sorbonne
One practice
Not four jobs. One question, followed everywhere.
- TeachingWhat happens in the room.
- CoursesWhat I build for your students.
- ScholarshipWhat I'm asking.
- Public workWhere the questions go next.
Case study
The humanities, walked into a museum.
A comparative-literature scholar, hired to build an AI-driven immersive exhibit for the National Sports Museum. Here is the translation — training into production:
- Humanities training close reading, narrative, rhetoric
- Narrative architecture the story the exhibit tells
- AI production copy, original music, generated media
- Immersive museum experience what a visitor walks through
This is what I mean by the humanities in motion — not a defense of the field, a demonstration of it.
In motion
Ideas into impact. Stories into worlds.
Teaching with AI
I don't ask whether students used AI.
I redesign the assignment so I can see where the thinking happened. "Responsible AI use" is wallpaper now — everyone can say it. The work is building tasks that make reasoning visible, and reward it.
- Prompt
- AI interaction
- Source check
- Revision decision
- Student reflection
Each step is designed to be seen and assessed. The essay was never the point; the mind that writes it is.
Credentials & materials
The record.
Everything an evaluation needs, in one place.