N i c o l e   E u g e n e

Nicole Eugene is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston-Victoria. She received her PhD from Ohio University in Communication Studies, her MA is from Bowling Green State University in American Cultural Studies and she studied Sociology and Art at Spelman College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, a disability advocate, and a scholar-artist. She is the winner of numerous awards and her work has been supported by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research focuses on the particular ways hidden disabilities—especially neurological disabilities—are shaped by cultural dynamics. She uses cultural studies, qualitative, ethnographic, and autoethnographic methods to examine the experience of navigating a visual culture with a hidden disability. She has published Narratives of Narcolepsy in Everyday Life: Exploring Intricacies of Identity, Sleepiness, and Place (2023) with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield and other research on a range of conditions that includes but is not limited to: Bipolar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parkinson’s Disease, and Narcolepsy. Nicole Eugene has published several articles, including peer-reviewed articles in Howard Journal of Communications, Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, and Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Her research interest areas includes: health disclosures, hidden disabilities, sleep, race, cultural studies, performance studies, critical theory, health narratives, feminism, and technology.