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
Biography
Jeremy Webster teaches Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature at 蜜柚视频, 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 蜜柚视频鈥檚 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.
Research Interests
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Manuscript Books, and Satire; Affective Bibliography; Drama as Literature; and Literature and Health
Publications
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
鈥淧romoting Collaboration and Reducing Competition on Ohio鈥檚 Co-Located Campuses: A Case Study,鈥 Access: The Journal of the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators 5.1 (2019): 28-35.
鈥淗an Leia Shot First: Transmedia Storytelling and the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars,鈥 Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling, Eds. D.A. Hassler-Forest and Sean A. Guynes, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 49-59.
鈥淩ewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage.鈥 Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on Thomas Holcroft鈥檚 Work and Life. Eds. Arnold Markley and Miriam Wallace. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 71-85.
鈥淚n and Out of the Bed-chamber: Staging Libertine Desire in Restoration Comedy,鈥 Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 12.2 (2012): 77-96.
鈥淨ueering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature,鈥 Literature Compass 5.2 (2008): 376-393.
鈥淭he 鈥楲ustful Buggering Jew鈥: Anti-Semitism, Gender, and Sodomy in Restoration Political Satire,鈥 Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 6.1 (2006): 106-124.
鈥淭eaching Pamela and the History of Sexuality.鈥 Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. New York: MLA, 2006. 56-62.
鈥淩ochester鈥檚 Easy King: Rereading the (Sexual) Politics of the Scepter Lampoon,鈥 English Language Notes 42.4 (June 2005): 1-19. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 140 (Detroit: Gale, 2008): 301-309.
鈥淪entimentalizing Patriarchy: Patriarchal Anxiety and Filial Obligation in Sir Charles Grandison,鈥 Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17.3 (April 2005): 425-442.
Courses
Undergraduate
- 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鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Queering/ing Leadership)
Graduate
Topics have included Patriarchy and Restoration Literature; Historicizing Gender and Sexuality in British Literature, 1660-1750; God and Sex in English Literature, 1660-1750; Unnatural Affections in the Age of Sensibility; and WGSS 5900: Queer/ing Leadership.