Ashley E Reis | SUNY: Potsdam (original) (raw)

Dr. Ashley Reis is a Clinical Associate Professor within the University of North Texas's College of Applied and Collaborative Studies (CACS). A member of the Department of Multidisciplinary Innovation (DMI), she teaches writing and literature courses, typically with a focus in the environmental humanities. Additionally, Ashley is the team lead for year two of North Texas NOW!, DMI's four-semester, dual credit program, rooted in the tenets of project-based learning.

Ashley earned her Ph.D. in English, with a focus in twentieth-century American literature and the environmental humanities, at the University of North Texas. Her research specialties lie in the environmental humanities, environmental justice, and equity in outdoor recreation and public land use. Ashley's scholarly work investigates the ways in which U.S. novels published since WWII depict a correlation between environmental degradation, and ecological grief and climate anxiety. Her public humanities work interrogates racism, colonialism, sexism, and ableism in settler outdoor recreation.

When she's not researching and teaching in Texas, you can find Ashley enjoying the mountain trails in northwest Wyoming (the unceded homelands of the Eastern Shoshone, Shoshone-Bannock, Northern Arapaho, and Cheyenne peoples, as well as other tribes, nations, and confederacies).
Supervisors: Ian Finseth, Priscilla Ybarra, and Jacqueline Foertsch

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