Jenny Ramirez is an art historian whose current interests are 19th-century Art & Photography, Asian Art, and East & West Interactions. She also has strong interest and experience in teaching in the arts, online course development, and organizing study abroad programs. Ramirez has focused her research on the Victorian photographer, Clementina, Lady Hawarden, publishing a book chapter on her connection to Women's literature in the 19th Century. Ramirez currently researches and writes about pedagogy and online course design.

Ramirez received her B.A. from McDaniel College with a dual major in English and History and a minor in Art History.
She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in nineteenth-century photography.
Ramirez teaches Art Survey I and II, History of Photography, and Introduction to Global Arts at OSU. She has extensive teaching experience at James Madison University, Mary Baldwin University, Virginia Military Institute, Blue Ridge Community College, and Northern Virginia Community College.

PUBLICATIONS

2020 Book chapter, "Doubles, Doppelgängers, and Desire: The Formation of Female Identity in the Photographs of Clementina, Lady Hawarden and Victorian Literature" in Doppelgängers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art 1840-2010, edited by Mary Edwards (McFarland Books)

2020 Co-authored (with Howard Sanborn) book chapter entitled: "Artifacts in ePortfolios: Moving from a Repository of Assessment to Linkages for Learning" in ePortfolios@edu: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Everything In-Between, edited by Mary Ann Dellinger and D. Alexis Hart (The WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, CO & University Press of Colorado, Louisville, CO)

2017 "Reflections on Asia: Borrowing Lessons from Art History in East Asia and China Coursework" (With Howard Sanborn) in ASIANetwork: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 24 (2): 70-88

2014 Co-authored (with Howard Sanborn) book chapter entitled: "Creativity and Reflection through Multi-modal Learning: Measuring Creative Expression in Student ePortfolios" in Capturing Creativity through Creative Teaching, edited by Kathryn Coleman and Adele Flood (Common Ground Publishing LLC: Champaign, IL)

2007 Book Chapter entitled: "Nurture and Inconformity: Arrieta's Images of Women, Food, and Beverage" in Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America, edited by Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips (Brill: Leiden & Boston)

Research Interests:

19th-Century Art, Photography, Asian Art, East/West Interactions, Pedagogy, Online Teaching & Learning