Ashley O’Mara

Ashley O’Mara is a PhD student in the Syracuse University English program, studying celibacy and asexuality in literature after the English Reformation. O’Mara also writes creative nonfiction and listens to Mashrou’ Leila, and has very strong opinions about hummus. Read more at ashleyomara.com.

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January 2019

“Fitting In”: Taking Up Space in the 116th US Congress (29 Jan. 2019)

October 2018

Revisiting Asexual Awareness Week (23 Oct. 2018)

November 2017

Valuing Difference: An Ace on Food, Friendship, and Fluffy Companionship (1 Dec. 2017)

Normalizing Difference: Redefining Asexuality (17 Nov. 2017)

Abnormalizing Difference: Sexual Normativity in Asexual Sherlock Fanfic (10 Nov. 2017)

Misrepresenting Difference: Objectifying Asexuality in Journalism (3 Nov. 2017)

October 2017

Special Edition: How I Misplaced My Faith (6 Oct. 2017)

January 2017

Coda: Converting Art — Literature During Political Repression (4 Feb. 2017)

Legalizing Repression: “Muslim Registries” and English Recusants (28 Jan. 2017)

Persuasive Performance: Theater and Conversion (13 Jan. 2017)

Un/natural Citizens: Naturalization and Conversion (6 Jan. 2017)

January 2016

Coda: The Human in the Humanities (29 Jan. 2016)

A Match Made in the Archive: Reading and Poaching Through Ngrams and Rare Books (22 Jan. 2016)

Common Knowledge?: EEBO, #FrEEBO, and Public Domain Information (15 Jan. 2016)

The Human in the Digital Humanities (8 Jan. 2016)

October 2014

Coda: Asexual Awareness Week and the Future of Queer Theory (31 Oct. 2014)

Queering LGBT History: The Case of Sherlock Holmes Fanfic (24 Oct. 2014)

Overwriting History: “Just Reading” and the Case of John Henry Newman (17 Oct. 2014)

Recuperation as Resistance: The Icons of LGBT History (10 Oct. 2014)

A History of LGBT History (3 Oct. 2014)