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Ashley E. Reis

Title: Clinical Associate Professor

Department: Multidisciplinary Innovation

College: College of Applied and Collaborative Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of North Texas, 2016
    Major: English
    Specialization: Philosophy of Ecology; 20th/21st Century U.S. Literature; Literature and the Environment; Environmental Humanities
    Dissertation: "With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel
  • MA, University of Oregon, 2008
    Major: English; Literature and the Environment
  • BA, University of Kentucky, 2006
    Major: English (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors in English)

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 2331.581World LiteratureSpring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2331.585World LiteratureSpring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.501First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.511First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus
ENGL 2341.581Forms of LiteratureFall SDC 2022 Syllabus
ENGL 2341.585Forms of LiteratureFall SDC 2022 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.571First Year Writing IISpring SDC 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2331.581World LiteratureSpring SDC 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2331.585World LiteratureSpring SDC 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.571First Year Writing IFall SDC 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2341.581Forms of LiteratureFall SDC 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2341.585Forms of LiteratureFall SDC 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.575College Writing IISpring SDC 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.577College Writing IISpring SDC 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.501College Writing IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.525College Writing IFall SDC 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.527College Writing IFall SDC 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3110.002Academic Writing in the HumanitiesSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.049College Writing IISpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.070College Writing IISpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 4900.754Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ENGL 3920.003Survey of Ethnic LiteraturesSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 3110.001Academic Writing in the HumanitiesFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.001College Writing IFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.049College Writing IFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.007Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.003College Writing IISpring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 1320.066College Writing IISpring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 1310.091College Writing IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.094College Writing IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3840.002American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.002College Writing IIFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.026College Writing ISpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 2220.005Masterpieces of world literature since the RenaissanceFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.010College Writing IISpring 2012
ENGL 1320.041College Writing IISpring 2012
ENGL 1310.064College Writing IFall 2011
ENGL 1310.091College Writing IFall 2011
ENGL 1320.012College Writing IISpring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.041College Writing IISpring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.035College Writing IFall 2010
ENGL 1310.064College Writing IFall 2010
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Ashley E. Reis. (2015). Edward Abbey's Ecological Exile. Critical Insights: American Writers in Exile.

    • Book Review

  • Ashley E. Reis. (2015). Review: Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction. 13 (2) The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol13/iss2/20/
  • Ashley E. Reis. (2014). Review of Stephanie Rutherford's Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power, Minnesota UP (2011) 288 pp.. http://http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/
  • Ashley E. Reis. (2014). Review: Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect by Heather Houser (2014). 21 (3) ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. http://www.asle.org/site/publications/isle/
  • Ashley E. Reis. (2013). Review of Robert Talley, Jr.'s Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies, Palgrave Macmillan (2011) 250 pp..

    • Journal Article

  • Reis, A.E. (2022). “A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold.. Western American Literature. 56 (3-4) 253-268. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846744
  • Reis, A.E. (2015). From Self to World: The Holistic Ecology of John Steinbeck's Early Fiction. Steinbeck Review. 12 (1) 39-51. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/steinbeck_review/toc/str.12.1.html

    • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Ashley E. Reis. (2011). Graduate Program Spotlight: Ecocriticism, Environmental Studies and Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas.. http://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Newsletters_Spring11.pdf

    • Personal Essay

  • Ashley E. Reis. (2012). Networking, or: How I Learned to Stop Fretting and Love the Challenge. http://www.litbridge.com/2012/06/28/networking-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-fretting-and-love-the-challenge/

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Service

  • Scott-Bracey, P.K. (Principal), Gavrilova Aguilar, M.C. (Co-Principal), Allen, J.M. (Co-Principal), Reis, A.E. (Co-Principal), "Inclusive Mentoring and Teaching Reading Group," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
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Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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