Ashley Lear

Title: Professor
Email: Ashley.Lear@erau.edu Email
Department: Humanities and Communication Department
College: College of Arts & Sciences

Office Hours

MW 11-1; T 10-noon; Th and F by appointment

External Links

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Dr. Ashley Andrews Lear Faculty Website

Biography

Dr. Ashley Lear specializes in Modern American Literature, Women's Literature, and Science Fiction. She teaches introductory literature courses and an upper-level interdisciplinary research course focusing on science fiction. Her publications include works on digital pedagogy, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ellen Glasgow, and feminist narrative theory.

Education

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Houston
M.A. - Master of Arts in English, Wake Forest University
B.A. - Bachelor of Arts in English: Psychology, College of William and Mary

Currently Teaching

HON 350: Honors Seminar III
HU 142HYB: Studies in Literature
HU 300: World Literature

Courses Taught

COM 122: Composition and Literature
HU 142: Studies in Literature
HU 338: Traversing the Borders, Science and Science Fiction (a course focusing on interdisciplinary research)
HON 250: Video Game Topography
HU 300: World Literature (Russian)
HU 310: American Literature
HON 350: Archaeologies of the Future

Publications

Ellen Glasgow: The \u201c'Feminine' Fa\u00e7ade\u201d and the \u201c'Masculine' Mind\" (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2009)
A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2012)
Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Publications (2015)
A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
Ellen Glasgow: The \u201c'Feminine' Fa\u00e7ade\u201d and the \u201c'Masculine' Mind\" (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence (Lear, Ashley Quaye Andrews) Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings\u2019s the Sojourner (Lear, Ashley Q.) Publications (2019)
Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings\u2019s the Sojourner (Lear, Ashley Q.) Ashley Andrews Lear (2019)
Ashley Lear (Lear, Ashley) ERAU Open Education Week Images (2021)

User Publications

The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, UP of Florida, 2018

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

Outstanding Teaching Award, ERAU, 2011

James E. Lewis Outstanding Service Award, ERAU, 2021