Jeffrey R. Wilson

Public Humanities is a space for scholars, students, activists, journalists, policy-makers, professionals, practitioners, and non-specialists to connect and share knowledge.

This gathering celebrated the launch of Public Humanities, a new open-access journal from Cambridge University Press, and the publication of the first issue, called The Manifesto Issue.

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model for companies developing innovative new products.

Theorizing four centuries of interdisciplinary scholarly engagement with Shakespeare.

How is Richard III always both so historical and so current?

Criminology and literature is an interdisciplinary field connecting the social scientific study of crime, criminals, criminal law, and criminal justice with humankind’s artistic, imaginative expression in written word. 

This article contends that Hamlet’s delay dramatizes due process in criminal justice proceedings.

Shortly after graduating from the University of California, Jeffrey Wilson found himself working in the Criminology department at Cal State Long Beach. This was an odd choice because Wilson's PhD was in Shakespeare. 

Revealing the modernity of Shakespeare’s politics,and the theatricality of Trump’s.

It’s time for a better—and more strategic—definition, Jeffrey R. Wilson writes.

This essay hazards a new reading of the most famous passage in Western literature: “To be, or not to be” from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

In honor of the final semester of Jeffrey R. Wilson's Why Shakespeare?, Key Terms is thrilled to showcase the impact the course has had on its students and the broader Shakespeare community.

This essay asks what the tragedy of alcoholism looks like when located not on the level of the individual but on the level of a culture, as Shakespeare depicts in Hamlet.

Emphasizing the importance of storytelling, this article includes tips for style and structure in public writing and advice on submitting pieces for publication.

It took Jeffrey Wilson a while to make a personal connection, but it showed him how to help others do it.

Jeffrey R. Wilson tells the story of Richard III’s body traveling through time into Shakespeare’s hands, on down to today. 

Host Rhiannon Giddens and her guests explore one of the most famous speeches in literature, its transformation into opera, and why Hamlet’s brooding soliloquy continues to intrigue artists and audiences four centuries later.

This essay theorizes a tradition in William Shakespeare’s drama involving some of his greatest and most captivating characters, including, among others, Richard III, Aaron the Moor, Shylock the Jew, Edmund the Bastard, Falstaff, Thersites, and Caliban.

Wilson’s new book, Shakespeare and Game of Thrones, explores some of the ways that Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones… as well as some of the ways that Game of Thrones has begun to influence Shakespeare.

Dr. Wilson answers our thirty lightning-fast Shakespeare questions and talk about his new book, Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity.

For the Taylor Swift (Public Humanities' Version) Roundtable.