My name is Jeremy Webster. I became dean of Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College in July 2009. An Associate Professor in the Department of English, I was previously a tutor and then Director of Studies in the HTC English Program of Studies.
My research interests focus on representations of gender, sexuality, and power in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British culture. My first book, Performing Libertinism in Charles II’s Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality was published by Palgrave McMillan in 2005. In this book, I examine the lives and plays of five authors (George Villiers, duke of Buckingham; John Wilmot, earl of Rochester; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etherege; and William Wycherley) as subversively political performances intended to challenge the social, religious, and political norms of their day. I have also published articles in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Language Notes, and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. I have two pieces forthcoming: a book chapter on Thomas Holcroft and Anti-Semitism on the Eighteenth-Century Stage and an article on beds in Restoration libertine comedy.
I am currently writing a second book, which will study representations of Jewish men and Englishness in Restoration and eighteenth-century texts.
I have been in Athens, OH, since 1999. I attended Texas A&M University for six years, earning my bachelor’s (’92) and master’s degrees (’94). I then earned my doctorate at the University of Tennessee (’99).
