Mary Nestor, Ph.D

Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of First-Year Writing

Contact
Department of English
Office: 809 Strode
Email: mcnesto@clemson.edu

Education
Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Aberdeen (2016); Master of Arts in English, University of Wyoming (2011); Bachelor of Arts in Theater, University of South Carolina (2007)

Courses
First-Year Composition and Rhetoric; General education courses on World Literature, British Literature and 20th and 21st Century literature; Honors seminar on Global Detective Fiction

Research Interests
British Romanticism, Adaptation Studies, FYW Pedagogy, Course Design

Mary Nestor's research interests include Sir Walter Scott, Romanticism and the long 19th century, global detective fiction, adaptation studies and monster culture. Her interests also include the impacts of GenAI on education, accessible course design and best practices for online pedagogy, which she brings into her work for the First-Year Writing Program. Dr. Nestor's publications include "Revisiting The Lady of the Lake: Walter Scott and the Representation of Scotland" in the Spring/Summer issue of Scottish Literary Review in 2020 and the chapter "Captain Dead Wick: Grief and the Monstrous in the John Wick and Deadpool Films" in The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel (Indiana UP, 2022). Her current projects include an examination of adaptations of Ivanhoe and reader response, which she presented on at the 13th International Walter Scott Conference in 2024. At the 2025 Carolina WPA 2025 Meeting in the Middle, Dr. Nestor participated with the FYW team in presenting a roundtable discussion on their work transforming the Clemson FYW program and developing a new curriculum.

Awards
2025 English Department Holman Teaching Award