Ashley Bender, Ph.D.

Contact

abender@twu.edu
940-898-2334
CFO 801

Education

Ph.D., English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
M.A., English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
B.A., English, cum laude, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Expertise

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Genre Studies; Discourses of Identity' Shakespearean Adaptations; Textual Studies; Service Learning; Online Pedagogies; Social Media in the Classroom

Latest Articles

XI Eighteenth Century
The Year's Work in English Studies (2024)
Joseph Turner, Francesca Saggini, Dylan Carver , Ashley Bender

XI Eighteenth Century
The Year's Work in English Studies (2023)
Joseph Turner, Fiona Milne, Dylan Carver , Ashley Bender

Building Professional Dispositions: Rethinking Professional Development for English Majors
ADE Bulletin (2023)
Ashley Bender

Continuing to #WriteWithAphra: A Year of Collegiality and Compassion
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (2021)
Ashley Bender, Daniella Berman, Jenny Factor, Elizabeth Giardina, Catherine Keohane

Going Global Without Going Abroad
The Global Impact Exchange (2021)
Ashley Bender, Gretchen Busl

Asking Big: Creating a Culture of Support for Academic Mothers Advocating in Times of Crisis
The ADVANCE Journal (2021)
Ashley Bender, Jackie Hoermann-Elliott

Rhetorical Bodies in Nahum Tate's King Lear and Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth
Papers on Language and Literature (2016)
Ashley Bender

Chapters

Experiential Learning as Public Humanities Practice
in Palgrave Handbook for the Digital and Public Humanities | Palgrave (2022)
Ashley Bender, Gretchen Busl

Recent Presentations

Direct Marketing Approaches for Recruiting Students in the Humanities
National Humanities Alliance (2021)
Podium | Ashley Bender

Samuel Richardson and the Rhetoric of Revision
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2021)
Round Table | Ashley Bender

Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Promote Global Learning
AAC&U Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, & Careers (2019)
Faculty Workshop | Ashley Bender, Gretchen Busl

Going Global Without Going Abroad: Building Local Partnerships for Inclusive Global Learning
National Society for Experiential Education conference (2018)
Round Table | Ashley Bender, Gretchen Busl

Local as Global: Experiential Learning in the Humanities
AAC&U Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice: Exploring Global Challenges across Disciplinary Boundaries (2018)
Poster | Gretchen Busl, Ashley Bender

Going Global Without Going Abroad: Building Local Partnerships for Inclusive Global Learning
National Society for Experiential Education conference (2018)
Round Table | Gretchen Busl, Ashley Bender

The Problems of Pamela Revisited
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2018)
Paper | Ashley Bender

Local as Global: Experiential Learning in the Humanities
AAC&U Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice: Exploring Global Challenges across Disciplinary Boundaries (2018)
Poster | Gretchen Busl, Ashley Bender

Creating a Database of Eighteenth-Century Stage Properties: Objects in The Rover
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2017)
Paper | Ashley Bender, Kalissa Hendrickson

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and the Undergraduate English Curriculum
Popular Culture Association (2016)
Paper | Ashley Bender

Writing Authorial Identity: Play-Texts in Fielding's The Author's Farce
American Comparative Literature Association (2016)
Paper | Ashley Bender

The TWU Cookbook Collection
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016)
Paper | Ashley Bender

Revision and Authorial Self-Fashioning in Samuel Richardson's Early Works and Pamela
South Central Modern Language Association (2016)
Paper | Ashley Bender

Using Social Media to Foster Student Engagement and Enhance Learning
Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching (2015)
Paper | Ashley Bender, Gretchen Busl

Rhetorical Bodies in Nahum Tate's King Lear and Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2015)
Paper | Ashley Bende

Professional Affiliations

• American Association of University Women
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• British Women Writers Association
• Modern Language Association
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Honors & Awards

• Mary Mason Lyon Award, Texas Woman's University (2020)
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, DHSI (2019)
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Texas Woman's University (2017)
• Favorite Faculty Member, Texas Woman's University (2016)