Nicole Roché has a background in journalism and creative writing. She brings many years of teaching experience at the University of Kansas and the University of Montana, as well as her experience as the Online Managing Editor of CutBank, the graduate literary journal at UM.
She said she first became interested in joining the Digital Scholarship team after working with Director of Research and Digital Scholarship, Eric Williams-Bergen, to incorporate digital narrative and photo annotation projects in her FYP “We Are Our Stories” and FYS “Everyday Artifacts.” In her FYS, students use digital projects to tell the history of treasured family heirlooms through old photographs and other primary materials that document family history, such as immigration records and military records, as well as through more personal documentation like letters, diary entries, and home recordings.