Ashley graduated summa cum laude from Widener University in May 2017. In addition to receiving her BA in English, Ashley also recieved a Teacher's Certificate in English Secondary Education. Ashley completed Student Teaching in an eighth grade English classroom for her final semester; the experience was both the most challenging yet rewarding experience of her educational career thus far. While at Widener, Ashley worked as a textual scholarship research assistant in which she studied and worked in the area of British Romanticism. The most exciting part of the research (by far) was attending the annual Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere England: Wordsworth's home and the location of where his original manuscripts are housed. Ashley completed a senior thesis on James Joyce's Ulysses examining how, through a cognitive lens, Leopold Bloom's exterior social interactions collide with his interior thoughts about his family. Aside from academics, Ashley spent much of her involvement at school with Widener's Student Life extracurricular activities including volunteering and being a tour guide; she even got the chance to travel domestically and abroad to Belize for service trips. Ashley is extremely excited to start the next phase of her educational career at Villanova. When Ashley is not studying English, you can find her coaching youth field hockey, running, drawing, teaching at a tutoring center, spending time with her younger sisters, and eating ice cream.
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