Dr. Nicolette Little's research interests include grassroots media interventions in gender-based violence (GBV), mediated memorialization and memory, nostalgia-driven social media platform affordances, and online misogyny.
Nicolette advised the federal government’s Status of Women Committee for its 2017 Violence Against Young Women and Girls (VAYWAG) study and advises national media (e.g., CBC & Toronto Star) as well. Her recent publications include:
* “Social Media ‘Ghosts’: How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence” (Feminist Media Studies, 2023)
* "Memorial-Tweeting Ontario's Femicides: Farrah Khan, the 'Montreal Massacre,' and VAW Memorial Practices in Canada" (Canadian Journal of Communication, In Press)
* “GBV-Related Mourning on a Social Network Site: Leah Parsons’ ‘Facebooked’ Grief and the Angel Rehtaeh Parsons Page” (2019).
Last year, she contributed to a CBC podcast, Boys Like Me (2021), on topics related to gendered hate online.
Nicolette has received the United Way’s Top 20 Under 40 Award (2015) and an Everyday Hero Professor’s Award (Sheridan College, 2016) for her educational leadership and consent awareness-raising initiatives. Nicolette’s PhD and MA research were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; she is a recipient of provincial and private research grants; and she received national finalist recognition by the Trudeau Foundation of Canada for her leadership, community advocacy, and research efforts.
Experience
2024–present
Professor of Digital Humanities, Sheridan College Institute of Technology
2022–2023
Assistant Lecturer, University of Alberta
2018–2021
Instructor of Record, University of Calgary
2009–2015
Professor, Communications and Literary Studies, Sheridan College
Education
2022
University of Calgary, Ph.D.
Publications
2024
Memorial-Tweeting Ontario's Femicides: Farrah Khan, the 'Montreal Massacre', and VAW Memorial Practices in Canada, Canadian Journal of Communication
2023
Social Media 'Ghosts': How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Feminist Media Studies
2019
GBV-related mourning on a social network site: Leah Parsons’ ‘Facebooked’ grief and the Angel Rehtaeh Parsons Page, Feral Feminisms: Critical Interventions in Rape Culture
2017
Expert witness submission to the Status of Women Committee, OpenParliament.ca
Grants and Contracts
2021
SSHRC Doctoral Supplement
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2020
University of Calgary Chancellor's Award
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University of Calgary
2018
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2018
Henry and Laura Jacques Graduate Scholarship
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University of Calgary
2017
Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
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Province of Alberta
2016
Micas Globalink International Research Award
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Mitacs
2005
SSHRC Masters CGS
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Professional Memberships
Board Member - Discovery House Domestic Violence Prevention Agency
Member - PREVNet (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network)
Member - Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Member - Canadian Communication Association
Honours
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2007, 2018); Top 20 Under 40 (United Way); Trudeau Foundation National Finalist