Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Global Marketing Leadership
University of Baltimore
2017
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Faculty
Faculty
Ashley Plack O'Donnell ( she/her)
Lecturer
Department/Office
- Department of English
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Ashley Plack O’Donnell is a lecturer in the Howard University Department of English. Her primary research interests focus on technical writing at the intersection of business, technology, and literature. Her research has reached international and national audiences at the Computers and Writing Conference, the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and British Association for Romantic Studies Joint Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, and the International Writing Center Association Annual Conference. To support the discipline, she regularly participates in service such as reviewing conference papers for both the International Communication Association Conference and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Professional Communication Conference.
Ashley Plack O’Donnell has spoken at national and international industry conferences on communication in the world of tech and marketing, including “Harnessing the Power of AI: Creating a Machine Learning Governance Strategy,” presented at HeroConf, and “Personalization 2.0: Personalization and Search Engine Optimization,” presented at Inbound. She continues to volunteer as a career mentor for undergraduate students and new professionals in tech.
Her primary passion is developing students’ effective technical communication and writing skills through advanced writing seminars.
Education & Expertise
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
English
Towson University
2015
Research
Research
Specialty
Composition, Digital Humanities, Business CommunicationsPublications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Communication Under Capitalism: Coding, Context, and Culture ,” Computers and Writing Conference, 2023
“Machine Learning Mediality and Literatures of the Internet ,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, 2023
“Literature Disseminating Literature: Algorithms and Accountability,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, 2022
Session Chair, “National Writing Panel,” NASSR/BARS Joint Conference, 2022
“The Romanticism of Capitalism through Individualistic Relationships and Individual Largesse in Pride and Prejudice,” NASSR/BARS Joint Conference, 2022
“Peter Pindar: Inverting Pindaric Odes in Eighteenth-Century Satire,” (technical co-chair for “Poets Writing About Poets” panel), Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, 2022• “The Burkean Parlor Reading Model,” International Writing Center Association Conference, 2015
“Writing Center Social Media Marketing Strategy,” International Writing Center Association Conference, 2015
“John Wolcot (Peter Pindar): The Folly of the Crowd,” Undergraduate Comparative Literature Symposium at UC Berkeley, 2014
“John Wolcot; Those Gentleman of Jingling Brains, “ Colonial Academic Alliance Conference, 2013
“Lolita and Pygmalion,” Undergraduate Conference in English Language and Literature at St. Francis University, 2013
“‘Those Gentlemen of Jingling Brains’: Kings, Critics, and Crowds in John Wolcot’s Satire”, Towson University Thesis Colloquium, 2014