Nicola has a PhD in English Literature and History from Lancaster University. She joined Loughborough University as Director of Strategic Curriculum Enhancement and Education Innovation in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities in August 2023. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer and Departmental Lead for Education at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Nicola’s research to date has been interdisciplinary in approach, examining class, gender, and national identity across literature and popular media from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She is particularly interested in the lower middle classes in Britain and their representation in popular and middlebrow literature, sitcoms, and film. Nicola also writes about the influence of landscape on the construction of masculinity, as well as the cultural significance of other key, everyday sites: suburbia, office spaces, commuting.
Nicola also researches pedagogy, particularly around graduate outcomes, progression, student experience and widening participation in Higher Education.
Nicola teaches on the Liberal Arts programme and nineteenth and twentieth century cultural history.
- In Nathan Ashman (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology, ‘The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction’ (Routledge, 2024).
- Nicola Bishop, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture (Bloomsbury 2021)
- In Sam Edwards, Faye Sayer (eds), Histories on Screen: The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television, ‘Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History’ (Bloomsbury 2018).
- Nicola Bishop, ‘Rural Nostalgia: revising the lost idyll in British Library Crime Classics detective fiction’, Green Letters 22 (1), 31-42.
- Nicola Bishop, ‘Screening Twenty-First Century Sight: Adaptation and the ‘Most perfect […] observing machine’, Adaptation 11 (1), 58-74.