Research
Signboard with "There is no Frigate like a Book" by Emily Dickinson
Multilingual children's literature display at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, Portland, OR
First page of 2019 chapter, "Literature and Language Acquisition: Benefits and Challenges"
Ashira develops curricula, training, and assessments for K-12 and adult learners focused on pedagogy and presentation skills.
I hold a doctorate in Education conferred by University College London, as well as a Master’s in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from Wellesley College. I am particularly interested in decision-making processes involving educational resources in the English as a Foreign Language classroom, and have presented my research findings on the perspectives and choices of high school English teachers in France at multiple institutions, including Georgetown University (United States), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), Sorbonne Nouvelle University (France), the University of Bucharest (Romania), and the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
As an educator, my achievements included advising Francophone students on undergraduate studies in English-speaking countries and guiding Singaporean students in the writing and performance of slam poetry. I also curated poetry collections for Bookelicious, reviewed creative writing for the Scholastic Writing Awards, and directed the musical “Oliver!”
Selected publications:
Interviewed for E.B. Bartels’ 2023 article, “Liberal arts shows you how to pivot”: STEM Organizations Need Humanities Majors,” for the Wellesley College website.
Greene, A.B. (2019) . “Literature and Language Acquisition: Benefits and Challenges” in Proceedings of AICED 20: Selected Papers in Linguistics, M. Tănase-Dogaru (ed.), Editura Universității din București, 2019, pp. 99-113.
Greene, A.B. (2017). “Literature in the French EFL classroom: A portrait of teachers' attitudes, goals, and resources.” Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), University College London.
Greene, A.B. (2015). “Negotiating the Syllabus: Autonomy and the Teaching of Literature in French Lycées” in The European Conference on Language Learning 2015: Official Conference Proceedings. Nagoya: The International Academic Forum, pp. 189 - 202.