Leonard R. N. Ashley

Leonard R. N. Ashley (born December 5, 1928 in Miami)[1][2][3] is an American writer on the English language. He was for many years professor of English at Brooklyn College.[4] He served as secretary of the International Linguistic Society (1980 - 1982) and later on its board and participated in ICOS (International Conference on Onomastic Sciences) in Europe. Aside from more traditional works on English drama. fiction, and poetry, and books on onomastics and geolinguitics he is also known for his series of popular dictionaries of the occult.[5] For the American Society of Geolinguistics he co-edits with Wayne H. Finke the journal Geolinguistics and the annual proceedings of the society's international conference. Some of his books on the occult are in Dutch, German, and Italian translations. He has published well over 100 articles in scholarly journals in the US and abroad, read over 200 papers at scholarly conferences, and published more 5000 pages of book reviews. Some of his books and articles are published in Britain and Europe and India. Articles are listed in MLA International Bibliography (thousands of entries) and also appear in such books as Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student; Art, Glitter, and Glitz; A Question of Choice; Babe Ruth at 2000; Modern American Drama: The Female Canon,450 Ans de noms de lieux français en Amérique du Nord; etc.; and US and many American and European encyclopedias and reference books. His first major publication was his collaboration with Frederick Fu Lui on A Military History of Modern China (Princeton University Press, 1956) for which Dr. Liu did the research and Ashley the writing. He has been guest lecturer at universities in IL, MS, NY, OH. Cuba, Germany,etc.

=English literature and Linguistics

numerous articles and reviews in Names: A Journal of Onomastics and other journals of onomastics regular chroniques (book review column) in Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (Geneva)

Popular Culture and the Occult

Folklore

Textbooks

6 Plays of World Drama (Taiwan)

Many articles in US journals (Christianity and Literature, Journal of Popular Culture. Journal of Information Ethics, Names, Geolinguistics, Verbatim, Comments on Etymology, Word Ways, etc.) and abroad (Onomastica Canadiana,Etudes Irlandais, Namenkundlich Informationen, Onoma, Onomata, Points of View, Air University Review (edicion Hispanoamricana(La Real Fuerza Aereae la colocaction de minas durante la Secunda Guerra Mundial),etc.Some articles reprinted such as in Cats, Chocolate, Clowns, ed. Greg Mitchell(first in Dramatists' Curtain), Gerald Leonard Cohen's Studies in Slang II (Forum Anglicum), and articles from Names by this author reprinted in some of his books. Also articles in proceedings of conferences of Gilbert and Sullivan (ed. James Helyar), The Connecticut Onomastics Symposium (ed. Conrad Rothrauf), The Conference on Literary Onomastics (ed. Grace Alvarez-Alman, and The Northeast Names Symposium (ed. Edward Callary), Iterationaler Kongress für Nsam,enfoprchung (Karrl-Marx-Universität. Leipzig), etc. reference book articles articles in the following: The Dictionary of Literary Biography Great Writers of the English Language: Novelists Great Writers of the English Drama: Dramatists An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers Nineteenth-Century Literature and Criticism Reference Guide to American Literature The American Encyclopedia Speaking Freely The Encyclopedia of British Humor The Encyclopedia of Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe The History of the Theatre (John Gassner) Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America Mouton de Gruyter onomastic encyclopedia Names,Noms, Nomen An Almanac of Words at Play (Willard R. Espy) etc.

Editions by Ashley: Phantasms of the Living A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke Soohrab and Rustum Shakespeare's Jest Book The Reliques of Irish Poetry The Ballad Poetry of Ireland America: The Country and Its People(Allen Walker Read) and 15+ Enriched Classics editions from Washington Square Press the following American Society of Geolinguistics international conference proceedings (all with Wayne H. Finke): Language in Contemporary Society Language and Identity Language in the Era of Globalization Language & Communications in the New Century Language and Popular Culture Language under Control Language and the Media

Awards The Shakespeare Gold Medal (1949) Gordon Macdonald Fellowship, Princeton University (1950- 1951) University Fellow, Princeton University (195-1952) Senior University Fellow, Princeton University (1952-1953) Best Article in Names (journal of the American Name Society) grant from American Council of Learned Societies New York State Council on the Arts for a production by Medicine Show of What I Know about You

References

  1. ↑ Men of achievement: Volume 15 1992 ASHLEY Leonard (Raymond) (Nelligan). b. 5 Dec 1928. Miami. Florida. USA Prof English, Writer, Edit Education: BA 1st class hons 1949, MA 1950, McGill Univ. Canada, AM 1953 and PhD 1956. Princeton Univ., US and afterwards LHD (Columbia Theological), honorary.
  2. ↑ The International authors and writers who's who Ernest Kay - 1989 ASHLEY Leonard R(aymond) N(elligan). b. 5 Dec. 1928, USA. Professor of English; Writer; Editor; Poet. Education BA. 1 st Class Honours 1949, MA 1950, McGill University; AM 1953, PhD 1956, Princeton University
  3. ↑ Elizabethan popular culture - Page 2 Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 "Elizabethan Popular Culture is an anthology which attempts to provide a more recent and specific account of what Professor G. B. Harrison attempted in a book published the year I was born, England in Shakespeare's Day
  4. ↑ Leonard R. N. Ashley - Colley Cibber 1989 "About the Author Leonard RN Ashley (Ph.D., Princeton) and LHD (Columbia Theological), honorary. He is professor emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he taught 1961 - 1995. He previously was on the faculties of the University of Utah (1953 - 1956) and the University of Rochester (1958 - 1961) and 1962 - 1972 taught part-time at the New School for Social Research. As Flying Officer and second assistant to The Air Historian of the Royal Canadian Air Force he compiled squadron histories and was the author the top secret report on The Air Defence of North America for NORAD (1956). His interests in linguistics are attested to by his past presidencies of the American Name Society (1979, 1987)and 40 years on the board of the American Name Society and the fact that he has been continually re-elected in the last couple of decades to the presidency of the American Society of Geolinguistics.
  5. ↑ Library journal: Volume 126, Issues 6-11 William White - 2001 The Complete Book of Werewolves Dr. Leonard R. N. Ashley $14.95 • ISBN 1-56980-159-2 • Paper A recent installment in Dr. Ashley's series on the occult is the ultimate resource for information on the werewolf."