Virginia Cope

Associate Dean and Associate Professor of English

243 Warner Library 
Warner Library 
1179 University Drive 
Newark, OH 43055

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Nineteenth-century British and American literature
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Race and ethnicity

 

Education

  • PhD, University of Virginia

 

Virginia Cope is the author of Property, Education, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2009, and articles and reviews on gender and economic transformations, African American literature and racialization. She is currently working on projects on free women of color in antebellum New Orleans, cosmopolitanism and pedagogy and the fictional representations of Mary Wollstonecraft.

 

Research

  • Property, Education, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest
    •  Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
Dr. Virginia Cope. Image courtesy of The Ohio State University.