Professor of English

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Biography:

A former English professor and gender studies director, Dr. Beth Savage holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Agnes Scott and a PhD from the University of Illinois, focused on gender theory and 18th-century drama. She earned the 2014 Chawton House Fellowship, which was presented in 2015 and published in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Her scholarship covers 18th-century celebrity, mothers in drama, and masculinity/cross-dressing in erotica.

Savage’s teaching tackles provocative topics, including the 2016 colloquium “Icons of Excess.” Students explored rare books, visited the Folger for a lecture, exhibit, and a performance of Sense and Sensibility, and later joined a 2018 Austen study-abroad program.

Education

• PhD, English Literature — University of Illinois
• MA — University of Illinois
• BA, English Literature — Agnes Scott College