• B.A., City College of New York
• M.A., City College of New York
• M.A., National Autonomous University of Mexico City

Ashley Ortiz serves as the Administrative Coordinator for the Lehman English Department. She attended Lehman College as a student, receiving her English B.A., specializing in Professional Writing in 2016. She then returned to Lehman to earn her English M.A., specializing in English Literature in 2020.

During her tenure as an undergraduate student, she participated in both the Obscura Literary Magazine and The Lehman Meridian newspaper, acting as an editor and writer, respectively. Her poetry and short stories have been published in multiple volumes of Obscura. As a graduate student, she represented the English MA program, informing prospective students about the incredible benefits of completing a post-secondary degree at Lehman. She has also participated in many of the English Department’s events.

Her master’s thesis, “The Eugenesis: Male Reproduction and Disability in Frankenstein,” discusses Victor Frankenstein’s androcentric perspective on the reproduction and development of human life that promotes a eugenic agenda that eliminates female involvement and offspring with disabilities.

Her literary interests range from nineteenth-century English literature, particularly Dark Romanticism, Gothic and Victorian Literature, to speculative fiction, focusing on dystopian and science fiction narratives, and, recently, Irish Literature.

She aspires to earn her PhD in English Literature with the prospect of becoming an English literature professor.