Associate Professor

Coordinator of Professional Writing
Morton Hall 161
910.962.3332
ashed@uncw.edu

Professor Ashe's research and teaching interests overlap almost entirely: she is interested in how documents work, how they persuade, how readers understand them, and how they can facilitate change. This focus on texts and their contexts leads her to study entrenched debates—often with environmental concerns at their center--between passionate citizens, duty-bound government officials, and intensely motivated industries. In addition, she's fascinated by the ways in which our increasingly complex methods of creating, viewing, and manipulating texts can complicate our already vexed ethical systems, leading to new forms of plagiarism and new ways of understanding (and sometimes enforcing) academic honesty.

ENG 204: Introduction to Professional Writing

ENG 316: Analyzing Style

ENG 318: Writing and Activism

ENG 319: Document Design

ENG 388: Rhetorical Theory to 1900

ENG 389: Rhetorical Theory since 1900

• with Elizabeth Ervin. “Mentoring Friendships and the ‘Reweaving of Authority.’” Stories of Mentoring. Ed. Michelle Eble and Lynee Gaillet. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. (forthcoming) 22 pages in manuscript.

• with Colleen Reilly. “Smart Growth of Professional Writing Programs: Controlling Sprawl in Departmental Landscapes.” Composing and Revising the Professional / Technical Writing Program. Ed. David Franke and Alexander Reid. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. (forthcoming) 28 pages in manuscript.

• with Michelle Manning. “Grade Expectations: Mapping Stakeholder Views of Online Plagiarism Detection.” Journal of Effective Teaching 7.2 (2007) 68-79.

• “The Space between Text and Action: Redefining Nature Writing through the work of Rick Bass and John McPhee.” The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass. Ed. Alan Weltzien. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. 122-47.