# Jeffrey R. Wilson Instructional Design Lead, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning ![wilson](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/earlymodernworld/files/img_7616_-_jeffrey_wilson.jpeg?itok=MkMn-7ii) email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu) - Region: England; United States - Time: 16th Century; 17th Century - Theme: British Literature; Cultural History; Intellectual History; Renaissance; Shakespeare; Social History Jeffrey R. Wilson is a teacher-scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of three books: [*Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History*](https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010577) (2022), [*Shakespeare and Game of Thrones*](https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-and-Game-of-Thrones/Wilson/p/book/9780367483920) (2021), and [*Shakespeare and Trump*](http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010076) (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?”](https://www.keyterms.org/issues/public-shakespeare) course in the Harvard College Writing Program. Wilson's research on Shakespeare and modernity has appeared in journals such as *Modern Language Quarterly*, *Genre*, *College Literature*, *Shakespeare*, *English Language Notes*, *Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England*, *Law and the Humanities*, *Disability Studies Quarterly*, *Early Modern Literary Studies*, *Mosaic*, and *Crime, Media, Culture*. His work has been featured on [*CNN*](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/opinions/shakespeare-and-the-northman-wilson/index.html), [*NPR*](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/aria-code/episodes/aria-code-brett-dean-hamlet-allan-clayton), [*MSNBC*](https://youtu.be/Iqp0dh0-k2w), [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/trump-presidency-election-loss.html), [*Salon*](https://www.salon.com/2020/05/17/is-donald-trump-a-tyrant-yes-and-no--aristotle-and-euripides-would-disagree/), [*JSTOR Daily*](https://daily.jstor.org/in-defense-of-polonius/), [*Zocalo Public Square*](https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/28/hamlet-suicide-contagion-teaching-shakespeare/ideas/essay/), [*Academe*](https://www.aaup.org/article/what-shakespeare-says-about-sending-our-children-college), [*CounterPunch*](http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/24/it-started-like-a-guilty-thing-the-beginning-of-hamlet-and-the-beginning-of-modern-politics/), [*The Chronicle of Higher Education*](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Write-on-My-Mobile-Phone/151631), and *The Harvard Gazette*. He has been a guest on series such as the Folger Library’s *Shakespeare Unlimited*, *Shakespeare Hour LIVE*, *Shakespeare for All*, [Twice Blest](/apple.co/3Dy1b1O), *The State of Shakespeare*, and *Marvel Movie Minute*. On Twitter [@DrJeffreyWilson](https://twitter.com/DrJeffreyWilson). - ## People: Department Search [Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning](/people-department-search/office-vice-provost-advances-learning) - ## People: Filtered Search [Visitors and Associates](/people-filtered-search/visitors-and-associates) - ## People: Theme Search [British Literature](/people-theme-search/british-literature) [Cultural History](/people-theme-search/cultural-history) [Intellectual History](/people-focus-search/intellectual-history) [Renaissance](/people-theme-search/renaissance) [Shakespeare](/people-theme-search/shakespeare) [Social History](/people-theme-search/social-history) - ## People: Region Search [England](/people-region-search/england) [United States](/people-region-search/united-states) - ## People: Time Period Search [16th Century](/people-time-period-search/16th-century) [17th Century](/people-time-period-search/17th-century)