Jeremy W. Webster
Education
- Ph. D. in English, University of Tennessee, 1999
- M. A. in English, Texas A&M University, 1994
- B. A. in History, Summa Cum Laude, Texas A&M University, 1992
Research Interests
- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Manuscript Books, and Satire
- Affective Bibliography
- Drama as Literature
- Literature and Health
Courses Taught
- ENG 1510: Writing and Rhetoric I
- ENG 2200: Introduction to Literature and Medicine
- ENG 3060J: Women and Writing
- ENG 3070J: Writing and Research in English Studies
- ENG 3130: English Literature: 1660-1800
- ENG 3260: Lesbian and Gay Literature
- WGSS 4900: Special Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Queering/ing Leadership)
- WGSS 5900: Queer/ing Leadership
Biography
Jeremy Webster teaches Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature at Ohio University, where he has been a member of the English Department since 1999. He currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies and chair of the Assessment Committee. He previously served as the Dean of the Honors Tutorial College (2009-1917) and the Dean of Ohio University’s Zanesville campus (2017-2020). He has received leadership fellowships from the Ohio Academic Leadership Academy (2008-2009), the American Council on Education Emerging Leaders Program (2015-2016), the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators Leadership Institute (2018-2019), and the Society for College and University Planning (2018-2019).
Dr. Webster received his BA in History and MA in English at Texas A&M University. He earned his PhD in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature with a specialization in drama as literature from the University of Tennessee.
His scholarship has focused primarily on satire and drama in the long eighteenth century. He has additional interests in the early eighteenth-century novel, twentieth-century radio drama, and twentieth-century illustrated editions of eighteenth-century novels. He is presently at work on a monograph on late Stuart manuscript miscellanies that uses methodologies of affective bibliography to understand the compilation, circulation, and censorship of manuscript books as responses to moral reform movements of the period.
Journal Article, Academic Journal (6)
- Webster, J. (2019). “Promoting Collaboration and Reducing Competition on Ohio’s Co-Located Campuses: A Case Study” . 1. Access: The Journal of the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators ; 5: 28-35.
- Webster, J. (2012). “In and Out of the Bed-chamber: Staging Libertine Desire in Restoration Comedy” . 2. Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies ; 12: 77-96.
- Webster, J. (2008). “Queering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature” . 2. Literature Compass ; 5: 376–393.
- Webster, J. (2006). “The ‘Lustful Buggering Jew’: Anti-Semitism, Gender, and Sodomy in Restoration Political Satire” . 1. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies ; 6: 106-124.
- Webster, J. (2005). “Rochester’s Easy King: Rereading the (Sexual) Politics of the Scepter Lampoon” . 4. English Language Notes; 42: 1-19.
- Webster, J. (2005). “Sentimentalizing Patriarchy: Patriarchal Anxiety and Filial Obligation in Sir Charles Grandison” . 3. Eighteenth-Century Fiction ; 17: 425-442.
Book, Scholarly (1)
- Webster, J. (2005). Performing Libertinism in the Court of Charles II: Politics, Drama, and Sexuality . New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 251 pp.
Book, Textbook (1)
- Webster, J. (1999). Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments. Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book (3)
- Webster, J. (2017). “Han Leia Shot First: Transmedia Storytelling and the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars” . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 49-59.
- Webster, J. (2012). "Rewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage". Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate; 71-85.
- Webster, J. (2006). “Teaching Pamela and the History of Sexuality” . New York : Modern Language Association ; 56-62.