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Ashley Kniss: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty
Ashley Kniss , Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
English | School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact
443-352-4039
Office Hours
10am-10:30am, MWF; 2pm-3pm, MW
Office Location
Garrison Hall S219 Campus Map
Education
- Ph.D. The Catholic University of America, 2017
- M.A. The Catholic University of America, 2010
- B.A. Eastern Mennonite University, 2006
Professional Experience
- Lecturer, Stevenson University, 2015-
- Teaching Fellow, The Catholic University of America, 2011-2015
- Adjunct Instructor, The United States Naval Academy, 2011-2015
- Adjunct Instructor, Prince George's Community College, 2013
- Writing Center Tutor, The Catholic University of America, 2010-2012
- Adjunct Instructor, Trinity University, 2011
- Adjunct Instructor, The Catholic University of America Intensive English Program, 2009-2010
Research
My primary area of interest is American literature of the nineteenth century. My dissertation, "The Last Things and the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Blended Frameworks in the Works of Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson," explores how authors of the mid-nineteenth century appropriated Gothic conventions to articulate growing anxiety about theology regarding death, the Intermediate State, resurrection, the Second Coming, and Apocalypse. I argue that these representative authors contradict mainstream narratives in religious rhetoric of the period through their use of the Gothic mode. The larger implication of this study suggests a need to expand the definition of American Gothic to include the subject of Apocalypse as it applies to American history and national identity.
Teaching
ENG151: Composition & Writing from Sources
ENG152: Writing About Literature
ENG281: American Horror Story
ENG381: American Monsters
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