Faculty Presentations

Ashley Foster

Title: Pacifisms, Utopias, Technology: Universal Design for Learning in the College Classroom

Dr. J. Ashley Foster is an Assistant Professor of 20th & 21st-Century British Literature with Emphasis in Digital Humanities. She received her PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2014.

Working at the intersection of literary studies, digital humanities, peace studies, and women’s studies, Ashley’s scholarship and teaching employs digital tools to trace the relationships between artistic and activist networks of the long 20th Century and to facilitate intertextual readings between literature and archives. Ashley’s book project, Modernism’s Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Spanish Civil War, illuminates a concern for peace and social justice in the study of modernism.

From 2014-17, Ashley served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Fellow in the Writing Program at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Ashley and the students from her “Peace Testimonies in Literature & Art” Writing Seminar curated the interactive digital humanities and special collections exhibition Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War, which ran from October 6 to December 11, 2015 in Magill Library at Haverford College.

Recent peer-reviewed articles include the co-authored “Changing the Subject: Archives, Technology, and Radical Counter-Narratives of Peace” in Radical Teacher (2016) and “Writing in the ‘White Light of Truth’: History, Ethics, and Community in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts” in the Woolf Studies Annual (2016).

In her spare time, Ashley enjoys a dedicated yoga practice, dancing, cross-country skiing, and hiking.

Keith Story

Title: Equity Minded Teaching in my Classroom

Dr. Keith Story is an assistant professor of marketing and supply chain management business at Fresno State.

His research interests include business-to-business marketing, marketing strategy, and the marketing-supply chain interface. Dr. Story’s current research looks at the ability of firms to recognize and act on innovation opportunities as a strategic resource, and how that resource can be used as a competitive advantage. He is a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fellow and was awarded a fellowship for his doctoral studies from the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Story worked in supply chain and marketing roles for leading companies such as Alcoa, Johnson and Johnson, Deloitte Consulting, and Accredo. His professional responsibilities spanned several areas of marketing and supply chain, including brand management, product management, inventory management, and operations improvement.

Kimberly Coy

Title: An Example of Universal Design for Learning in one University Lesson

Kimberly Coy is an Assistant Professor in Kremen. Her areas of interest include digital learning environments, neurodiversity and it’s impact on education, and radical inclusion. Dr. Coy has facilitated the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Summer Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in addition to a number of presentations nationally and several research projects leading to publications. Before working in post secondary education Kimberly taught K-8 general and special education, including working in a full time online public school. Her next obsession will include shrimp tacos.