Nicole Maurantonio

Nicole Maurantonio is Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and American Studies at the University of Richmond. She currently serves as Associate Provost of Academic Affairs.

Dr. Maurantonio's research explores narrative and material traces of memory. Her book, Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century (2019), explores how the Confederacy is remembered today, using museum exhibits and souvenirs, monuments, literature, and graffiti as sites of study. She is now working on a book project that considers the visual representation of Delbert Africa's surrender within the context of histories of police brutality and at the nexus of memory, religion, and politics.