Virginia Cope

Virginia Cope is an Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University Newark Campus. She holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on 19th-century British and American literature, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnicity. Current projects include studies on free women of color in antebellum New Orleans, cosmopolitanism and pedagogy, and fictional representations of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Her scholarly work includes the monograph Property, Education, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and articles on gender, economic transformations, African American literature, and racialization.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided information. She advises no listed students. Her professional activities include administrative roles in the College of Arts and Sciences.