Nicole B. Wallack

Sen. Nicole B. Wallack, PhD, is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program (UWP) and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, which she joined in 2003. She co-chaired the Lecturers Study Committee, which created the report on the status of lecturers for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences in 2018. She was the inaugural chair of the Lecturers Advisory Committee in 2020. Until summer 2025, she served as the first lecturer elected to the PPC. In each of her roles, she has advocated for non-tenure eligible faculty has encouraged their full participation in faculty governance in their home departments and across schools and campuses at Columbia. She has served previously on the Committee on the Status of Women and the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Senate as a non-tenure-eligible representative for the Humanities. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of essay studies, writing studies, composition and rhetoric, the impact of AI on writing programs, American literature, and teacher education. In fall, 2025, she was elected to Co-chair the NTTOT caucus and served on the Executive Committee of the Senate.