Nasiba Norova

Recent and upcoming courses

Fall 2025

• WRIT 131: Writing I
• WRIT 231: Writing II

Biography

Nasiba Norova is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Language, and Literature at Metro State University, where she teaches courses in First Year and Advanced Writing. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her dissertation, Experiencing Race, Racism, and Racialization in Transnational Contexts: Racial Literacies of First-Year International Asian Students, examined racial literacies and the lived experiences of multilingual students navigating U.S. higher education. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of writing studies, applied linguistics, and education. She has extensive experience teaching undergraduate, graduate, and pre-college programs across the United States and internationally. Nasiba’s scholarship engages with racial literacies, multilingual writing, culturally sustaining pedagogies, writing teacher education, and transnational perspectives in applied linguistics. She has presented her research at major conferences, including AAAL, AERA, NCTE, and MATSOL. Her publications appear in journals such as Studies in Art Education, Teachers College Record, Journal of International Students, Journal of Research and Innovation in Language, and practitioner-oriented outlets like MATSOL Currents and MinneTESOL Journal. In recognition of her commitment to equity and inclusive teaching, she was awarded the Center for Innovative Teaching (CIT) Award for Inclusive Pedagogies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Beyond academia, she is actively involved in professional and community service, including leadership roles in AAAL and MATSOL, as well as engagement with local education initiatives.

Research Focus

• Racial literacies in composition courses and in the higher education context
• Multilingual writing and literacy
• Culturally sustaining and peace-oriented pedagogies
• Writing teacher education
• Transnational and intercultural perspectives in applied linguistics

Selected Publications

• Norova, N. (2025). Insights from graduate school: Unconventional mama PhD student during the pandemic. In Trinh, Pentón Herrera, & Yazan (Eds.), Autoethnographies of border-crossing and in-betweenness of international doctoral students’ voices in the United States. Brill.
• Leider, C., Tigert, J., Norova, N., Fotouhi, G., Sawyer, J., & Wang, R.T. (2024). Supporting multilingual learners: A pilot survey of art teachers. Studies in Art Education, 65(2), 185–209.
• Leider, C., Tigert, J., & Norova, N. (2024). Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners: A Content Analysis of Teacher Professional Organizations' Position Statements. Teachers College Record, 126(3), 54–85.
• Norova, N., & Gutiérrez, J. D. (2024). Transnational voices in academia: Narratives of identity and positionality through research and teaching. Journal of International Students, 14(3), 109-130.
• Fakhrutdinova, I., Norova, N., & Quintana, V. (2023). Re-envisioning academic competition: Sharing leadership in co-authorship, co-publication, and building collective wisdom. In B. Yazan, E. Trinh, & L. Pentón Herrera (Eds.). Autoethnographies of doctoral students in applied linguistics (pp. 195-213) Routledge.
• Norova, N. (2022). World Englishes and linguicism: Spreading linguistic tolerance. In Birch (Ed.), Creating classrooms of peace in English language teaching (pp. 208-225). Routledge.
• Norova, N. (2020). Sexism in elementary EFL textbooks: Spotted in Uzbekistan. Journal of Research and Innovation in Language, 2(2), 37–45. https://doi.org/10.31849/reila.v2i2.4470