Nancy Chick is a SoTL scholar, scholarly teacher, and faculty developer. In 2011, she left full-time faculty work as an English professor to focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and faculty development first at Vanderbilt University, the University of Calgary, Rollins College, and now Texas Woman’s University, where she is the Executive Director of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship and Professor of English. Nancy has taught undergraduate courses on American literature, women’s and gender studies, and how learning works in higher education, as well as graduate courses in literary pedagogy and feminist pedagogy. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on the results of SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL. (See her CV for a full list of publications.) Nancy also has an extensive editing background, serving as founding co-editor, with Gary Poole, of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning/ISSOTL (2011-2020). In 2017, she was presented with an ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award, served on the ISSOTL Presidential team from 2019-22 and (with Chng Huang Hoon) as President in 2020-21, and was the Society’s inaugural Historian until 2024.
