Writing in the Humanities

Jeffrey R. Wilson is a Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of three books: Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History (2022), Shakespeare and Game of Thrones (2021), and Shakespeare and Trump (2020). As an instructional design lead in the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, he creates courses and events for Harvard Online. From 2014-22, he taught the Why Shakespeare? course in the Harvard College Writing Program. He has also taught English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine; writing and theory for the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach; and courses on the humanities, museum studies, and the fundamentals of grammar at the Harvard Extension School.