Jeremy W. Webster
Associate Professor
Dean, Honors Tutorial College
British Literature 1660-1820, GLBT Literature
Office: 35 Park Place
Office Phone: 593-2723
Email: webstej1@ohio.edu
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Degrees
Ph.D., English, University of Tennessee, 1999
M.A., English, Texas A&M University, 1994
B.A., History, Texas A&M University, 1992
Publications
Books
Performing Libertinism in Charles II’s Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 261 pp.
Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments. Ed. with Susan G. North and Linda Bensel-Meyers. Simon & Schuster, 1999; Second Edition, 2002.
Articles, Reviews, and Other Publications
“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.
Rev. of Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture by Mark Knights, Journal of Modern History 79.4 (2007): 904-905.
Rev. of Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London by Mark S. Dawson, Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 by Daniel O’Quinn, and Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by Virginia Mason Vaughan, Eighteenth-Century Life 31.2 (2007): 115-126.
Rev. of Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 by Ronald Schechter, British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Literature, Culture ed. by Sheila A. Spector, Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity by Gershon David Hundert, Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by Daniel M. Swetschinski, and The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. Eighteenth-Century Life 30.1 (2006): 76-91.
Curriculum Vitae
Recent Presentations
“English Masculinity and the Work of ‘Jews’ in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington,” International Conference on Romanticism, Rochester, MI, October 2008
“Antisemitism, Christian Mythology, and English Manhood in Romantic Literature,” Antisemitism and English Culture, London, UK, July 2007
“Turks and the Exclusion Crisis: Revising Representation, Partisanship, and Political Culture in Aphra Behn’s The False Count,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 2007
“‘Judge not the man by his exterior part’: Sentimental Philo-Semitism and Patriarchal Subversion in Richard Cumberland’s The Jew,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, IL, February 2007
“Queerness, National Identity, and the ‘Debauch’d Jews’ of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, CA, March 2006
“‘A Jew with a Great Bag of Money and a Swinging Tarse’: Negotiating Gender, Sodomy, and Antisemitism in Restoration Miscellanies ,” Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1580-1850, Christ’s College, Cambridge, July 2004
“Tenderizing Patriarchy: Filial Obligation and Patriarchal Subjection in Sir Charles Grandison,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, MA, March 2004
“‘No One Told You ‘Bout That, Did They?’ Reimagining Gross Indecency in Queer as Folk,” North American Society on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, November 2002
“Dorimant’s Linens: Staging Masculine Desire in Restoration Drama,” Midwest Conference on British Studies, Columbus, OH, October 2002
Courses
English 153: Writing & Reading (Special Topics)
English 203: Critical Approaches to Drama
English 251: English Literature to 1688
English 296T: Honors Tutorial (Intro to Reading Literature)
English 299T: Honors Tutorial (The Eighteenth Century)
English 302: Shakespeare's Comedies
English 306J: Women and Writing
English 307J: Writing and Research in English Studies
English 313: British Literature 1660-1800
English 325: Women and Literature
English 326: Lesbian and Gay Literature
English 377T: Honors Tutorial (The Eighteenth Century)
English 399: Literary Theory
English 460: Literary Topics
English 464: Major British Authors
Humanities 109/309: Great Books (Enlightenment to the Present)
Graduate Courses: Restoration Lit, Early Eighteenth-Century Lit, Late Eighteenth-Century Lit, Contemporary Drama