Ashley S.

I graduated in 2015 with a MA in English Literature from Weber State University in the United States. While working as an adjunct professor in the English department, my research interests examine the impact of supernatural folklore (e.g. vampires, werewolves, banshees, etc.) on late Victorian literature. I spend my time talking about monsters and other largely irrelevant things. I am a popular culture addict who has made my career "reading too much into things," or at least that's what my students tell me. You'll have to pry my television shows and movies out of my cold, (un)dead hands.

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By Ashley S. • 8 years ago

Chick Vampires Give College Women a Voice

When I rolled out my “monsters curriculum” at the university where I teach, it was unconventional to say the least. I teach English to college freshman and sophomores in an attempt to impart some knowledge about the English language and writing without embarrassing your boss/company. Personally, my absolute favorite monster is a vampire (my nickname in my undergrad was “the vampire girl”). My section on vampires often lacks a certain “oomph” when compared to my section on zombies, but I learned pretty quickly that the vampire section aided my female students the most. This was unexpected to say the least, but my female students accessed their inner feminists through the vampire creature.