Ashley E Reis
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
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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Most recently, she was a professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam where Reis taught her students, among other things, about the ways in which marginalized populations have long been displaced from outdoor spaces. But these same folks, people of color, Indigenous populations, members of the LGBTQ community, are finding ways to reclaim the outdoors and regain control of their narratives. One way they’re doing this? Social media. And that happens to be the subject of a recent article by Reis: #EquityOutdoors—Public Lands and the Decolonial Mediascape.
A part-time Jackson resident, Reis joins us in the studio to discuss that article and some of the misconceptions surrounding what it means to strive for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. She says the reason she took this focus in her work is because of a responsibility she felt to her students.
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Most recently, she was a professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam where Reis taught her students, among other things, about the ways in which marginalized populations have long been displaced from outdoor spaces. But these same folks, people of color, Indigenous populations, members of the LGBTQ community, are finding ways to reclaim the outdoors and regain control of their narratives. One way they’re doing this? Social media. And that happens to be the subject of a recent article by Reis: #EquityOutdoors—Public Lands and the Decolonial Mediascape.
A part-time Jackson resident, Reis joins us in the studio to discuss that article and some of the misconceptions surrounding what it means to strive for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. She says the reason she took this focus in her work is because of a responsibility she felt to her students.