Ashley Lear
- Title
- Professor
- Ashley.Lear@erau.edu Email
- Department
- Humanities and Communication Department
- College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Office Hours
Monday / Wednesday 9-11, 3-4. Thursday / Friday by appointment. Contact me by email to schedule an appointment at ashley.lear@erau.edu.
External Links
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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 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
- HON 350: Honors Seminar III
- HU 145: Themes in the Humanities
- 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
- Narrative World Building: Creative Applications for Gamification in Study Abroad Publications (2024)
- “A woman ‘in the snow among the clocks and instruments’” Pure Portfolio (2023)
- \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)
- "A Woman 'in the snow among the Clocks and instruments'” Pure Portfolio (2022)
- Ashley Lear ERAU Open Education Week Images (2021)
- Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner Publications (2019)
- Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner Pure Portfolio (2019)
- The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow Pure Portfolio (2018)
- Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence Publications (2015)
- Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence Pure Portfolio (2015)
- Science and Science Fiction: Methods for Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Intermedia Assignments Pure Portfolio (2013)
- A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2012)
- A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pure Portfolio (2012)
- Making Dorothy Parker My MySpace Friend: A Classroom Application for Social Networks Pure Portfolio (2010)
- Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” and the “'Masculine' Mind" Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2009)
- Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” and the “'Masculine' Mind" 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