Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford (she/her) is a diasporic Filipina-British settler scholar and educator whose interdisciplinary work is accountable to and in relationship with Filipinx/a/o studies, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, anti-colonial methods and praxis, literary studies, digital media and communication studies, and digital humanities. Ashley is an Assistant Professor of Multiethnic American Literatures in the Department of English Language and Literature at Weber State University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Writing and English Literature in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ashley has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto.

  • A black and white headshot of Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford.
    A black and white headshot of Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford.
  • Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford is seated at a desk covered in notebooks, laptops, and other materials.
    Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford participates in the 2024 Global Asias Summer Institute at Penn State University. She is seated at a desk covered in notebooks, laptops, and other materials.
  • A photo of Sewsen Igbu (center), Shanna Peltier (left), and Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford (right) presenting a co-authored paper entitled “Challenging Solidarity as Transaction and Working towards Decolonial Futures through a Praxis of Radical Love” at the American Studies Association Conference in 2023.
    Sewsen Igbu (center), Shanna Peltier (left), and Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford (right) present a co-authored paper entitled “Challenging Solidarity as Transaction and Working towards Decolonial Futures through a Praxis of Radical Love” at the American Studies Association Conference in 2023.