Nicholl Montgomery

Nicholl Montgomery joins the Children’s Literature program as an experienced educator, writer, reviewer, and community organizer. She is completing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College with a dissertation titled, “An Adult Who Sees Them: A Critical Content Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult Literature Written by Jacqueline Woodson.” Nicholl is active in the children’s literature and Boston communities, including as a reviewer for Horn Book, judge for the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, and co-organizer of a multi-generational book club with local communities and a bookstore. In her work and teaching she incorporates critical race theory and Black queer theory as she considers questions of race, gender, and power. She notes that her experience as an award judge finds her asking, “What makes a book not just a good book but an award-winning book?” Nicholl earned her MA in teaching from Northeastern, her MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Psychology from Boston College.