Ph.D. in Literature, University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia)
Grad Cert Teaching Second Languages, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
M.Phil. in Literature, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
B.A. Honours in Literature, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
B.A. in Journalism and Literature, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, (United Kingdom)

Dr. Nycole Prowse is Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai, where she teaches courses in composition, creative writing, and literature.
Dr. Prowse has 30 years’ experience teaching in the English, Literature, Theatre and Creative Industries programs at universities in Australia, Japan, China, and the Middle East. As a feminist scholar, she has published widely in the area of literary representations of gender, space, and the body, including as editor of the cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary anthology Intervening Spaces: Respatialisation and the Body (Brill 2018); the book Heroin(e) Habits: Potential and Possibilities in Female Drug Literature (Gylphi 2018); a chapter in the 2020 edition of the Routledge Companion to Australian Literature; and numerous journal articles and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her current research examines the ontological and epistemological shifts in the novel form and the corresponding socio-cultural impact and paradigmatic shift from Modernism to Transmodernism.

Dr. Prowse’s academic experience and qualifications have complemented her creative pursuits. She is an award-winning poet, a playwright, director, and producer with over 30 years’ experience in in the creation and production of creative and literary projects and festivals in Australia, Japan, China, the UK, and the Middle East. She is currently collaborating on the production of a film script set in Tokyo and composing a Celtic opera. She founded the arts organisation Peripheral Arts in 2016 upon completion of her PhD in Literature.

She is a visionary who has a steadfast belief in the power of story to change lives and indeed the world.