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 2200: Introduction to Literature and Medicine
- ENG 3070J: Writing and Research in English Studies
- ENG 3010: Shakespeare
- ENG 3130: English Literature: 1660-1800
- ENG 5950: Introduction to English Studies
- ENG 6190/7190: Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
Biography
Dr. 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 Chair of the Department and as Treasurer for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. He previously served as the Dean of the Honors Tutorial College (2009-1917) and the Dean of Ohio University’s Zanesville campus (2017-2020) and 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).
Research Interests
Dr. Webster's scholarship is focused primarily on satire and drama in the long eighteenth century. He is presently at work on two major projects. One is 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. The other is a study of twentieth-century illustrations of Gulliver's Travels as acts of literary, visual, and political interpretation.
Books
Performing Libertinism in the Court of Charles II: Politics, Drama, and Sexuality (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments. Gen. Ed. Linda L. Bensel-Meyers. Eds. Susan Giesemann North and Jeremy W. Webster (Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999)
Articles and Book Chapters
"Marriage, Consent, and Masquerade in The Merry Masqueraders; or The Humorous Cuckold," forthcoming in Penelope Aubin: Poet, Novelist, Negotiator, Businesswoman, ed. Stan Booth and Chris Mounsey, Routledge.
"Promoting Collaboration and Reducing Competition on Ohio’s Co-Located Campuses: A Case Study," Access: The Journal of the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators 5.1 (2019): 28-35.
"Han Leia Shot First: Transmedia Storytelling and the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars," Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling, Eds. D.A. Hassler-Forest and Sean A. Guynes, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 49-59.
"Rewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage." Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on Thomas Holcroft’s Work and Life. Eds. Arnold Markley and Miriam Wallace. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 71-85.
"In and Out of the Bed-Chamber: Staging Libertine Desire in Restoration Comedy," Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 12.2 (2012): 77-96.
"Queering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature," Literature Compass 5.2 (2008): 376-393.
"The ‘Lustful Buggering Jew’: Anti-Semitism, Gender, and Sodomy in Restoration Political Satire," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 6.1 (2006): 106-124.
"Teaching Pamela and the History of Sexuality." Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. New York: MLA, 2006. 56-62.
"Rochester’s Easy King: Rereading the (Sexual) Politics of the Scepter Lampoon," English Language Notes 42.4 (June 2005): 1-19. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 140 (Detroit: Gale, 2008): 301-309.
"Sentimentalizing Patriarchy: Patriarchal Anxiety and Filial Obligation in Sir Charles Grandison," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17.3 (April 2005): 425-442.