Rosemary Doreen Ashton, OBE, FBA (née Thomson; born 11 April 1947) is a Scottish literary scholar.
From 2002 to 2012, she was the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.
[4] Born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, she was educated at the universities of Aberdeen, Heidelberg, and Cambridge, where her doctoral research was on the reception of German literature in British magazines in the early 1800s.
[5] After lecturing at the University of Birmingham, she started her long teaching and research association with UCL in 1974.
[6] In the 1999 New Year Honours, Ashton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to comparative literature".