Randy D. Nichols is Assistant Professor of Communication at Limestone College where he serves as Chair of the Department of Professional Communications and Interdisciplinary Studies. Dr. Nichols teaches Communications, Digital Literacies, Critical Thinking and other courses in the College's new Professional Communication degree program

Randy holds the Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design from Clemson University where he taught Composition, Communication and Cultural Literacies.

Much of Dr. Nichols recent research has centered on developing a new model for critical cultural engagement. After conducting a successful pilot project for the “Cultural Literacies Across Media” course, Randy conducted the new multimodal version of the program with students across the globe in Spring of 2010, and again in Spring 2011.  Recent Media attention given to Nichols' course includes articles in the AAH Magazine of Clemson University's College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities and in the recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. His resulting dissertation, "A Rhetorical Approach to Cultural Literacies Across Media," develops a theoretical model for engaging cultural "texts" across various media. The "Stolons Method" is a rhetorical approach that acknowledges the multiplicities of "observable acts and artifacts" that form the complex and dynamic organic systems that comprise "culture." The Stolon Method analyzes the organic and dynamic nature of "culture" through the impulses of nomos (naming), archon (display), ethnos (identification), muthos (narratives), and techne (making).