Ashley Lear
- Title
- Professor
- Ashley.Lear@erau.edu Email
- Department
- Humanities and Communication Department
- College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Office Hours
Monday/Wednesday 10-noon; Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:30; Friday by appointment
External Links
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Biography
Dr. Ashley Lear specializes 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 narrative model of Hollow Knight as an allegory for the pandemic experience.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
- HON 350: Honors Seminar III
- HU 142HYB: Studies in Literature
- HU 142: 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
- \u201cA Woman \u2018in the snow among the Clocks and instruments’\u201d: How Adrienne Rich Reimagined the Lives of Women Astronomers Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2022)
- Ashley Lear ERAU Open Education Week Images (2021)
- Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner Ashley Andrews Lear (2019)
- Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner Publications (2019)
- Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
- Ellen Glasgow: The \u201c'Feminine' Fa\u00e7ade\u201d and the \u201c'Masculine' Mind\" Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
- A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Ashley Andrews Lear (2017)
- Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence Publications (2015)
- A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2012)
- Ellen Glasgow: The \u201c'Feminine' Fa\u00e7ade\u201d and the \u201c'Masculine' Mind\" Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2009)
Publications
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, UP of Florida, 2018Awards, Honors and Recognitions
Outstanding Teaching Award, ERAU, 2011
James E. Lewis Outstanding Service Award, ERAU, 2021