Biography

Ashton Foley-Schramm’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, especially the novel, and representations of reading. She is currently working on her dissertation entitled “Reading the Reader: Analyzing Depictions of Male Readers in Nineteenth Century Fiction.” This project explores an often overlooked topic in scholarship on reading–depictions of male readers–, arguing that that concerns over too much reading, or not reading the “right” thing, also extended beyond gendered borders in subtle and not so subtle depictions of male characters who read, especially those who read fiction. Ashton currently has work under consideration for an anthology, Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century from Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. She has also co-authored an article, “Preparing Graduate Students for the Field: A Graduate Student Praxis Heuristic for WPA Professionalization and Institutional Politics,” which will be appearing this spring in WPA: Writing Program Administration.