Ashley Palmer
Instructor
Assistant Director of First-Year Writing for Distance Learning and Online Courses.
- aepalmer2@ua.edu
- (205) 348-5065
- 205 English Building
Education
- 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
Research Areas
- American Literature
- Women's Work
- Consumer Culture
- Digital Humanities
Selected Publications
In Progress
Counter Narratives: Department Store Shopgirls in the American Imagination (monograph)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Heart of Capitalism: Contested Visions of Labor Reform in Lurana Sheldon’s Department Store Novels.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Volume 34, Number 1, 2017, pp. 106-128.
“Forgetting the Uncomfortable: Reading the Shadows of Retail Labor in Sister Carrie and Susan Lenox.” American Literary Realism. Volume 49, Number 2, 2017, pp. 129-151.
“Walt Whitman’s Poetry Reprints and the Study of Nineteenth-Century Literary Circulation.” Co-authored with Matt Cohen, Stephanie M. Blalock, and Alejandro Omidsalar. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Volume 35, Number 1, 2017, pp. 1-44.