Ashley Lear

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Biography

Dr. Ashley Lear is a Humanities professor specializing in American Literature. She teaches introductory literature courses and upper-level courses in American and Russian Literature. Her courses for the Honors Program focus on science fiction and video game narratives. Dr. Lear's publications include works on digital pedagogy, science fiction, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ellen Glasgow, feminist narrative theory and women in astronomy. She is currently researching the use of autoethnography in humanities courses, the comparable approaches to cultural shifts by transcendentalists and Russian 19th century philosophers and critical scholarship on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She serves as the Executive Director of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society. 

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

• HU 310: American Literature
• HON 250: Honors Seminar II
• HUMN 145: Themes in the Humanities
• HU 145: Themes in the Humanities
• HUMN 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 (Science Fiction)
• HU 145: Themes in the Humanities (Video Game Studies)

Publications

• Narrative World Building: Creative Applications for Gamification in Study Abroad (Ashley Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2024)
• “A woman ‘in the snow among the clocks and instruments’” (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2023)
• \u201cA Woman \u2018in the snow among the Clocks and instruments’\u201d: How Adrienne Rich Reimagined the Lives of Women Astronomers (Taylor, Kayla, Lear, Ashley Q., PhD) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2022)
• "A Woman 'in the snow among the Clocks and instruments'” (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2022)
• Ashley Lear (Ashley Lear) ERAU Open Education Week Images (2021)
• Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner (Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2019)
• Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2019)
• The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2018)
• Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2015)
• Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2015)
• Science and Science Fiction: Methods for Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Intermedia Assignments (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2013)
• A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2012)
• A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2012)
• Making Dorothy Parker My MySpace Friend: A Classroom Application for Social Networks (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2010)
• Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” and the “'Masculine' Mind" (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2009)
• Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” and the “'Masculine' Mind" (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2009)

Publications

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

Lear, A. (2024). Narrative World Building: Creative Applications for Gamification in Study Abroad. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 36(1), 499–530. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v36i1.695

Lear, A., & Taylor, K. (2023). “A woman ‘in the snow among the clocks and instruments’”: How Adrienne Rich reimagined the lives of women astronomers. Acta Astronautica, 207, 283–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.03.025

Lear, Ashley. “Discord in the Classroom” Scholarly Teacher, Mar. 23 2022, https://www.scholarlyteacher.com/post/discord-in-the-classroom

Lear, Ashley and Ethan Hale. “What is Real?: Gaslighting, Brainwashing, and Ontological Crisis in the Works of Philip K. Dick.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 85, no. 3, 2020, pp. 132-151. 

Lear, Ashley. “Science and Science Fiction: Methods for Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Intermedia Assignments.” The College English Association Forum, vol. 42, no.1, Winter/Spring 2013, pp. 99-126.

Lear, Ashley. “Making Dorothy Parker my MySpace Friend: A Classroom Application for Social Networks,” Writing (and) the Digital Generation. McFarland, 2010. 

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

Outstanding Teaching Award, ERAU, 2011

James E. Lewis Outstanding Service Award, ERAU, 2021