Ashley Lear

Professor

Ashley.Lear@erau.edu

Humanities and Communication Department

Daytona College of Arts & Sciences

Ashley Lear

Overview

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. 

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

Outstanding Teaching Award, ERAU, 2011

James E. Lewis Outstanding Service Award, ERAU, 2021

Teaching

  • HUMN 145: Themes in the Humanities
  • HUMN 300: World Literature
  • 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)
Monday / Wednesday 10-noon, Tuesday / Thursday 12:45-1:45. Contact me by email to schedule an appointment at ashley.lear@erau.edu.

Research

  • (Heather Leonard, Cassandra Konz, Alice Dell'Era, Preston Jones, Ashley Lear, Courtney McQueen) Hunt Library Webinars (2026)
  • (Ashley Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2024)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2023)
  • (Taylor, Kayla, Lear, Ashley Q., PhD) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2022)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2022)
  • (Ashley Lear) ERAU Open Education Week Images (2021)
  • (Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2019)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2019)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2018)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Publications (2015)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2015)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2013)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2012)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2012)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2010)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear, Ashley Q. Lear) Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach (2009)
  • (Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear) Pure Portfolio (2009)

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.