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Dr. Ashley Nadeau

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Curriculum Vitae: Ashley Nadeau CV

Biography

Ashley Nadeau is an Associate Professor of English at Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature. Her research explores the relationship between the social and architectural histories of built public space, the Victorian literary imagination, and feminist theory, and her work on these subjects and others has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorians Journal, The Gaskell Journal and Modern Language Studies, and is forthcoming in the edited collection, The Time of Close Reading_ Victorian Fiction's Presents. Her current project examines the role of audiobooks in undergraduate literary studies and studies in the Victorian novel.

Education

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017

Major: English

MA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011

Major: English

BA, American University, 2008

Major: Literature

Teaching

ENGL 2600

Critical Introduction to Literature HH, Spring 2024

ENGL 2600

Critical Introduction to Literature HH, Spring 2024

ENGL 471R

Eminent Authors, Spring 2024

ENGL 481R

Internship, Spring 2024

Presentations

Nadeau, Ashley , Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, "11.5x Victorian Fiction_ Accelerated Reading from the Assembly Line to the Audiobook", Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), Genoa, Italy. (June, 2025)

Nadeau, Ashley , Discovering COVE_ A Roundtable of Case Studies. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference, NAVSA Event 2024, "COVE and Audiobooks_ Sonic Encounters with Victorian Texts", North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Online Event. (October 11, 2024)

Nadeau, Ashley , North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference, NAVSA Event 2024, "Out of Print_ Multimodal Approaches to Teaching Victorian Literature", North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Online Event. (August 7, 2024)

Nadeau, Ashley , Array, Array , Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) Conference , "Reading Transformed_ Measuring the Impact of Audiobooks and Transmedia Learning in the Victorian Literature Classroom", Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Cincinatti, OH. (March 23, 2024)

Nadeau, Ashley , North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference , "Beyond the Essay_ Creative Assignments in the Victorian Studies Classroom", North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Bloomington, IN. (November 10, 2023)

Nadeau, Ashley , Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) - Annual Conference, "Rethinking the Elements of Literary Analysis_ Audiobooks in the Victorian Literature Classroom", Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS), Seattle, WA. (October 20, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Nadeau, Ashley , (2025) "A Valuable Tool in the English Classroom_ A Survey of Undergraduate Literature Students on their Experiences with Audiobooks" . Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.

Nadeau, Ashley , (2025) "Audio Encounters with Victorian Poetry" . Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom. https://undiscipliningvc.org/html/assignments/audio_encounters.html

Nadeau, Ashley , Craig, Jessica , (2024) "Reading transformed_ measuring the impact of audiobooks and transmedia learning in the Victorian literature classroom" (Issue: 5, vol. 46). Nineteenth-Century Contexts. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2024.2441404

Cox, Kimberly , Das, Riya , Draucker, Shannon , Nadeau, Ashley , Nesbit, Kate , Thierauf, Doreen , "Death of the Essay? Generative AI, Literature Teachers’ Five Stages of Grief, and Alternative Assignment Design in Victorian Studies" . London: Victorian Network. https://www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn/index

Cox, Kimberly , Das, Riya , Draucker, Shannon , Nadeau, Ashley , Nesbit, Kate , Thierauf, Doreen , (2023) "Prioritizing Pedagogy in Victorian Studies" (Issue: 2, vol. 51). USA: Victorian Literature and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1017/S106015032300044X

Nadeau, Ashley , Logan, Deborah , (2022) "Illusion, Disillusion_ Theater Space and Public Performances of Middle-Class Femininity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette" (vol. 142). USA: Victorians Journal. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uvu.edu/10.1353/vct.2022.0011

Awards

Faculty Excellence Award

ENGL 3655

Victorian British Literature, Fall 2018

Nadeau, Ashley (Panelist), North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference , "Heretic Research and Immersive Reading_ Audiobooks, Pedagogy, and Victorian Studies", , North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) , Bethlehem, PA. (September 29, 2022)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) Conference, "Surface Listening or Deep Engagement? Sounding the Limits of Reading with Audiobooks", , Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), Salt Lake City, UT. (March 25, 2022)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, "Audiobooks and the Unsettled Text in the Victorian Literature Classroom", , North American Victorian Studies Association, Virtual (Scheduled for Vancouver, Canada; moved remote due to COVID-19 pandemic). (March 4, 2022)

Nadeau, Ashley , Digital Humanities Utah (DHU) 6, "Close Reading in the ‘Audio Age’: Audiobooks Pedagogy and the Victorian Novel", , Digital Humanities Utah, Provo, UT. (February 25, 2022)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), Dickens Society Annual Symposium (DSS) , "Dickens in Your Ears_ Teaching Audiobooks in the Victorian Literature Classroom", , Dickens Society , Virtual (Scheduled for Rochester, NY but moved online due to COVID-19 pandemic). (July 14, 2021)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, "An Omnibus Amongst the Trees_ Revisiting Amy Levy’s A London Plane Tree", , North American Victorian Studies Association , Columbus, OH. (October 18, 2019)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), Dickens Society Annual Symposium (DSS), "Housing Crisis_ Authority and Ownership in Charles Dickens’s A House to Let", , Dickens Society , Salt Lake City, UT. (July 26, 2019)

Nadeau, Ashley (Presenter & Author), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) Conference, "’Pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record’: Thomas Hardy and the Case Against Restoration in Tess of the D’Urbervilles", , Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), Dallas, TX. (March 22, 2019)

Nadeau, Ashley , Gettelman, Debra , Jaffrey, Audrey , O’Farrel, Mary Ann, "Close Reading in the ‘Audio Age’: Audiobooks Pedagogy and the Victorian Novel" . The Time of Close Reading_ Victorian Fiction’s Presents.

Nadeau, Ashley , (2020) "Review of Open Houses_ Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Issue: 3, vol. 10). Edinburgh: Victoriographies. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/vic.2020.0400