Nicole Pagowsky

PhD Student
Adjunct Instructor
Nicole
Research Areas
  • Information literacy
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Library instruction

Nicole Pagowsky is an Associate Research & Learning Librarian and Instruction Coordinator at the University of Arizona. She is a liaison and co-coordinates The Libraries' Foundations program. She holds her second Master's in Instructional Design. Her research interests include student motivation, educational theory, and critical pedagogy, and Nicole has published and presented on these topics nationally. She has co-edited recently-published volumes for the Association of College & Research Libraries Press on critical library pedagogy, and is co-creator and co-moderator of the #critlib critical librarianship Twitter chats. Nicole is the instructor for LIS 581, Information Literacy Pedagogy with the U of A College of Information Science, and has co-taught the ALA Instructional Design Essentials ecourse.