Ashley Palmer

Ashley Palmer is an Instructor and Assistant Director of First-Year Writing for Distance Learning and Online Courses at the University of Alabama's Department of English. Her research focuses on American Literature, with a particular emphasis on Women's Work, Consumer Culture, and Digital Humanities.

• Ph.D., English, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
• M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010
• B.A., English, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2005

Her scholarship explores themes such as labor in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, department store narratives, and the intersection of digital methods with textual analysis. Recent publications include articles in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, American Literary Realism, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. She is also working on a monograph, Counter Narratives: Department Store Shopgirls in the American Imagination.

No scientific awards are listed. Her role as Assistant Director involves overseeing first-year writing programs in online and distance learning contexts. No advisees or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided information.