Nikky Suárez
Evangelista Graduate Fellow 2026-27
Nikky Suárez is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature program at Cornell University. She is a Colombian-American woman who was raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As a Graduate Research Assistant for a course-redesign project, she and her team presented writing and investigative strategies at local conferences with an accompanying e-book, Strategies for Conducting Literary Research: Squeeze the Most Out of Your Research published Fall 2022. During the summer of 2022, she completed an independent directed study in the United Kingdom uncovering archival unpublished documents of women’s writings through prints, letters, and journals at the British Library. Before the global pandemic, she worked abroad in Abu Dhabi as an English professor to bilingual Arab students where she obtained her Professional Diploma in Teaching.