About Nicole Correri

Nicole Correri is a Ph.D. Candidate in Islamic Studies under the direction of Professor Kecia Ali. She has also earned the Boston University Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her areas of interest include Shi'a Islam, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Digital Religion, and Ritual Studies. Her particular focus area is on gender construction in contemporary online English language Twelver Shi‘a religious discourse. Her dissertation "Speaking for Zaynab: Contestations in Contemporary Shī‘ī Religious Authority and Gendered Ideals" examines the development of a new genre of devotion in Twelver Shi'ism, the online English language majālis using digital religion and feminist theory as her main theoretical lenses relying on contemporary scholarship on Islam, and Shi‘ism in particular.

Nicole "Cole" Correri, Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic Studies - Boston University. She can be reached at ncorreri@bu.edu

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicole:

Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)

February 3, 2025

The Ethics of Karbala

Cyrus Ali Zargar
Hosted by Nicole Correri

The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility (Routledge, 2024) investigates the relationship between sacred narratives and the dev…

Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

December 20, 2024

The World in Words

Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz
Hosted by Nicole Correri

This episode features Daniel Majchrowicz, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature & Culture at Northwestern University, discussing his new boo…