A notebook of compositions by Nicole Dixon

Nicole Dixon is earning her M.A. in English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches an introductory course on black literary and cultural studies. She has written podcast scripts for the Remarkable Receptions podcast, and she is collaborating on the production of a series of whiteboard animations focusing on casting and black diaspora. 

Entries

2024

• April 18: Casting Viola Davis (whiteboard animation)

• April 15: Reading Faces, Part 2

• April 15: Reading Faces, Part 1

• April 15: Black Book Dominos

• March 9: The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle (with Holmon, White, and Rambsy)

• March 9: The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (with Holmon, White, and Rambsy)

2023

• December 26: Casting Viola Davis

• June 5: Casting Cora

• June 5: Casting Bias

• May 5: Black Diaspora and Casting Possibilities

• April 16: Sierra Taylor and Nicole Dixon discuss Black Casting project 

• April 14: Casting Bias

• April 14: Casting Cora

• April 5: Casting across black diaspora

• February 20: African American literature, film adaptations, and Barry Jenkins 

2022

• December 29: Novelist and Television writer, Nichelle Tramble Spellman – (with Howard Rambsy II)

• December 16: Waiting to Exhale film adaptation

• November 17: Oprah Winfrey, Film, and African American literature

• October 10: The Color Purple film adaptation 

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