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Beth Sutton-Ramspeck

Beth  Sutton-Ramspeck

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck

Emerita
She/her/hers

sutton-ramspeck.1@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • British Romantic and Victorian literature
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Harry Potter

Education

  • PhD, English (minor in Woman's Studies), Indiana University, 1995
  • MA, English, University of California, 1978
  • BA, English, Kenyon College, 1976

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck's specialties are Victorian literature and culture, and Harry Potter. She is the author of Harry Potter and Resistance (Routledge, 2023) and Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Ohio University Press, 2004). She has also edited the utopian novel Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the novel Marcella by Mary Augusta Ward and the novel Helbeck of Bannisdale by Ward. She retired in 2020 after 22 years of teaching on the Lima campus of OSU. 

Selected Publications

Curriculum Vitae

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