# Articles ### How to Do Public Humanities ![How to Do Public Humanities](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/How%20to%20Do%20Public%20Humanities%20%28Image%29.png?h=e54db882&itok=in5C2L5a) [### Stigma as Drama: From Shakespeare to Sociology and Back ](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/981188) ![Stigma as Drama](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Stigma%20as%20Drama%20%28Image%29.jpeg?h=73ae3a76&itok=WL1NcAwN) [### Shakespeare and the Fate of Taylor Swift ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/shakespeare-and-the-fate-of-taylor-swift/6E6329E2BF6CBE602474CDCB0E209C0B) ![Shakespeare and the Fate of Taylor Swift](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/Shakespeare%20and%20the%20Fate%20of%20Taylor%20Swift.jpg?itok=8xsoehmd) [### Businesses Have a Lot to Learn From the Impromptu ‘Teaming’ That Happens in Theater ](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/businesses-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-impromptu-teaming-that-happens-in-theater-180985929/) ![Lord and Lady Macbeth](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Businesses%20Have%20a%20Lot%20to%20Learn%20From%20the%20Impromptu%20%E2%80%98Teaming%E2%80%99%20That%20Happens%20in%20Theater.jpg?h=8eeb5b45&itok=HeA0B2rW) [### How to Do Public Writing ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/how-to-do-public-writing/5EE0E072EB60671784EAA69FB5BBA147) ![The Salina Journal](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/How%20to%20Do%20Public%20Writing.png?h=6d854335&itok=0P0iGCZR) [### Justice for Hamlet ](https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2025.2475677) ![The Criminal Justice System in Elizabethan Murder Trials](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Justice%20for%20Hamlet.jpeg?h=0bdaa6d7&itok=x4iW4_rB) [### What is Public Humanities? (with Zoe Hope Bulaitis) ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/what-is-public-humanities/D37E4F7C768137CE662A6E7554C5F4FF) ![What is Public Humanities? ](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/What%20is%20Public%20Humanities%3F%20%28Image%29.png?itok=Rj8PvcHs) [### Shakespeare Across the Disciplines ](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-66898-2_10)PDF ![Taxonomy of academic disciplines](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Shakespeare%20Across%20the%20Disciplines%20%28Image%29.jpeg?h=dd378cd9&itok=Xrs1SMQC) [### “Why brand they us?": The Metaphors and Metamorphoses of Stigma in King Lear ](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/732649) ![Why Brand they Us](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Why%20Brand%20they%20Us%20%28Image%29.jpeg?h=5d8a2ef5&itok=1xDWmUf9) [### A New Definition of the Humanities ](https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/25/new-definition-humanities-opinion) ![A New Definition of the Humanities](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/a_new_definition_of_the_humanities.jpg?h=7cfab2df&itok=ALeaqH5h) [### Stigma and Satire in Troilus and Cressida: Thersites’s Deformity and Ajax’s Monstrosity ](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/medieval-and-renaissance-drama-in-england-9781683933823/) ![Stigma and Satire in Troilus and Cressida](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Stigma%20and%20Satire%20in%20Troilus%20and%20Cressida%20%28Imaage%29.jpeg?h=1550728d&itok=_JqT5njx) [### Reclaiming Richard III’s Disability ](https://nursingclio.org/2023/02/23/reclaiming-richard-iiis-disability/) ![Reclaiming Richard III’s Disability](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/reclaiming_richard_iiis_disability.jpg?itok=c8RRUHHi) [### Cripping Richard III ](https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/01/03/the-case-for-cripping-but-not-cripping-up-richard-iii/) ![Cripping Richard III](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/cripping_richard_iii.jpg?h=d114ed52&itok=MAs_IWAd) [### Why Richard III? ](https://templepress.wordpress.com/2022/10/19/why-richard-iii/) ![Why Richard III](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/why_richard_iii.jpg?itok=Wgn29Vhy) [### Sigma Alpha Elsinore: The Culture of Drunkenness in Shakespeare’s Hamlet ](https://read.dukeupress.edu/english-language-notes/article-abstract/60/1/39/297503/Sigma-Alpha-ElsinoreThe-Culture-of-Drunkenness-in) ![sigma_alpha_elsinore.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/sigma_alpha_elsinore.jpg?h=5ce898bd&itok=LB5b_kPx) [### In Defense of Polonius ](https://daily.jstor.org/in-defense-of-polonius/) ![In Defense of Polonius](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/in_defense_of_polonius_image.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=X30n_rpw) [### What "The Northman" is Really About ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/opinions/shakespeare-and-the-northman-wilson/index.html) ![what_the_northman_is_really_about_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/what_the_northman_is_really_about_image.jpg?h=09700c1b&itok=FiT8Shkw) [### Criminology and Literature ](https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu/files/jeffreywilson/files/jeffrey_r._wilson_22criminology_and_literature22_2021.pdf) ![criminology_and_literature_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/criminology_and_literature_image.jpg?h=418d1b84&itok=MgV9r5f6) [### Public Shakespeare ](https://www.keyterms.org/issues/public-shakespeare) ![public_shakespeare_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/public_shakespeare_image.jpg?itok=IWhiob2S) [### Shakespeare for Cops ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/shakespeare-survey-74/shakespeare-for-cops/77E182CBB8DDB59F88447D91E9326FF6) ![shakespeare_for_cops_iimage.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeare_for_cops_iimage.jpg?itok=FDZVFrFO) [### Public Shakespeare on Shakespeare for All ](https://www.shakespeareforall.com/blog/public-shakespeare) ![public_shakespeare_on_shakespeare_for_all_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/public_shakespeare_on_shakespeare_for_all_image.jpg?itok=OLuXZivB) [### What’s Love Got to Do with Hamlet? ](http://www.shakespearemagazine.com/2020/11/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-quite-a-lot-actually-when-it-comes-to-the-key-characters-of-hamlet-jeffrey-r-wilson-throws-light-on-shakespeares-fascinating-foray-into-perhaps-the-most-complex-e/) ![whats_love_got_to_do_with_hamlet_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/whats_love_got_to_do_with_hamlet_image.jpg?h=0c7e84a9&itok=8DrHaLYA) [### Hamlet is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach it Like One ](https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/28/hamlet-suicide-contagion-teaching-shakespeare/ideas/essay/) ![hamlet_is_a_suicide_text_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/hamlet_is_a_suicide_text_image.jpg?h=433c9d07&itok=3NHKj4cm) [### Is Donald Trump a Tyrant? Yes and no — Aristotle and Euripides would Disagree ](https://www.salon.com/2020/05/17/is-donald-trump-a-tyrant-yes-and-no--aristotle-and-euripides-would-disagree/) ![Is Donald Trump a Tyrant](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/is_donald_trump_a_tyrant_image.jpg?h=f9d89217&itok=CznXapyg) [### The Fortunes of Fate in Hamlet: Divine Providence and Social Determinism ](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA644718251&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00263451&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E7f99cf50&aty=open-web-entry) ![the_fortunes_of_fate_in_hamlet_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/the_fortunes_of_fate_in_hamlet_image.jpg?itok=wfK-3Ilz) [### 10 Scenes from Shakespeare that Fit Donald Trump’s Presidency — Streaming Now ](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-scenes-from-shakespeare-that-fit-donald-trumps-presidency-streaming-now-2020-04-17) ![10_scenes_from_shakespeare_that_fit_donald_trumps_presidency_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/10_scenes_from_shakespeare_that_fit_donald_trumps_presidency_image.jpg?h=624400ad&itok=I3343GMY) [### Social Distancing with Shakespeare ](https://templepress.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/social-distancing-with-shakespeare/) ![Social Distancing with Shakespeare](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/social_distancing_with_shakespeare_image.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=QLh3fRJ4) [### Which of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes is Donald Trump? ](https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-which-of-shakespeares-tragic-heroes-is-donald-trump-20200413-cpv5ny6ckrfqzdy4jes6afxhka-story.html) ![which_of_shakespeares_tragic_heroes_is_donald_trump_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/which_of_shakespeares_tragic_heroes_is_donald_trump_image.jpg?itok=sVHXtqob) [### Why Shakespeare? Irony and Liberalism in Canonization ](https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7933076) ![why_shakespeare_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/why_shakespeare_image.jpg?h=71cd410a&itok=XfAfVl0U) [### Sober for 20 Under 40 ](https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/sober-for-20-under-40-kpkn/) ![Sober for 20 Under 40](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Sober%20for%2020%20Under%2040%20%28Image%29.jpg?itok=CdppZF5g) [### Public Shakespeare in Public Seminar ](http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/06/public-shakespeare-in-public-seminar/) ![Public Shakespeare in Public Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/public_shakespeare_in_public_seminar_image.jpg?h=71d2ea6d&itok=4ldjyRVC) [### The Hamlet Syndrome (with Henry F. Fradella) ](https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872115626076) ![the_hamlet_syndrome_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/the_hamlet_syndrome_image.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=j0EypMcI) [### Tragic Foundationalism ](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745262) ![tragic_foundationalism_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/tragic_foundationalism_image.jpg?h=f9d89217&itok=wipC-KIq) [### "Redeeming time": The Dramatization of Desistance in 1 Henry IV ](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780228000068-014/html?srsltid=AfmBOooudPD5HaOElt7LHpHH9A4bgM5aLG7e0OfydFhh91eaYsbwuzb4) ![redeeming_time_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/redeeming_time_image.jpg?itok=9vFY1bPA) [### The Meaning of Death in Shakespeare’s Hamlet ](https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1697193) ![meaning_of_death_in_shakespeares_hamlet.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/meaning_of_death_in_shakespeares_hamlet.jpg?h=45f0b9d1&itok=WN64elsf) [### Trump is Satan: Paradise Lost in Washington, DC ](https://spectator.us/trump-satan-paradise-lost/) ![trump_is_satan_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/trump_is_satan_image.jpg?h=7b4ec23d&itok=OMNnLAoq) [### Historicizing Presentism: Toward the Creation of a Journal of the Public Humanities ](https://profession.mla.org/historicizing-presentism-toward-the-creation-of-a-journal-of-the-public-humanities/) ![historicizing_presentism_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/historicizing_presentism_image.jpg?h=8223c618&itok=NnCFQmz7) [### How Game of Thrones Will End: Spoilers from the Fifteenth Century ](http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/04/how-game-of-thrones-will-end/) ![how_game_of_thrones_will_end_image_copy.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/how_game_of_thrones_will_end_image_copy.jpg?itok=-R-vIpAk) [### Tragic Excess in Hamlet ](https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imz008) ![tragic_excess_in_hamlet_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/tragic_excess_in_hamlet_image.jpg?h=e7af937c&itok=r7xDOwie) [### Macbeth and Criminology ](https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2019.0018) ![macbeth_and_criminology.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/macbeth_and_criminology.jpg?h=734ea15a&itok=x2uusRtz) ### Horatio as Author: Storytelling and Stoic Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet ![horatio_as_author.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/horatio_as_author.jpg?h=1ac7d0f0&itok=b2ZbFnzT) [### The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama ](https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7190506) ![figure_of_stigma_in_shakespeares_drama_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/figure_of_stigma_in_shakespeares_drama_image.jpg?h=3ac76a7e&itok=uE_XtnCr) [### Something is Rotten in the United States of America: Mass Shootings as Tragedy ](https://thesmartset.com/something-is-rotten-in-the-united-states-of-america/) ![something_is_rotten_in_the_united_states_of_america_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/something_is_rotten_in_the_united_states_of_america_image.jpg?h=e54e6178&itok=pvTr6oAs) [### Shakestats: Writing About Shakespeare Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences ](https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/view/395) ![shakestats_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakestats_image.jpg?h=c6431d93&itok=EqgWcBL7) ### “Savage and deformed": Stigma as Drama in The Tempest ![Savage and Deformed](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/savage_and_deformed_image.jpg?h=433c9d07&itok=BZFulVIu) [### “As a stranger give it welcome": Shakespeare’s Advice for First-Year College Students ](https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2018.1510269) ![as_a_stranger_give_it_welcome.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/as_a_stranger_give_it_welcome.jpg?h=c32ba4da&itok=zdF7sTeV) [### “You must needs be strangers": Stigma and Sympathetic Imagination in Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More ](https://vernonpress.com/book/380?srsltid=AfmBOooa6K-xwQKqCu6og3d462NWpTTgxC3Ii27TWjUy1aGnZiMT9nQ7) ![You must needs be strangers](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/you_must_needs_be_strangers.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=3N4fptsD) [### What Shakespeare Says About Sending Our Children Off to College ](https://www.aaup.org/article/what-shakespeare-says-about-sending-our-children-college) ![what_shakespeare_says_about_sending_our_children_off_to_college_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/what_shakespeare_says_about_sending_our_children_off_to_college_image.jpg?itok=nxRvhJ-S) [### "When evil deeds have their permissive pass": Broken Windows in William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure ](https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2017.1371953) ![when_evil_deeds_have_their_permissive_pass_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/when_evil_deeds_have_their_permissive_pass_image.jpg?h=0762662f&itok=2mmu9cB5) [### “To be, or not to be": Shakespeare Against Philosophy ](https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2017.1343376) ![To be or not to be](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/to_be_or_not_to_be_image.jpg?h=d3af0028&itok=eKX0oZgo) [### The Trouble with Disability in Shakespeare Studies ](https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/340/) ![trouble_with_disability_in_shakespeare_studies_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/trouble_with_disability_in_shakespeare_studies_image.jpg?h=c07547f2&itok=TeiykSue) [### Violent Crime as Revenge Tragedy; Or, How Christopher Dorner Led Criminologists at CSU Long Beach to Shakespeare ](http://www.thisroughmagic.org/wilson%20article.html) ![violent_crime_as_revenge_tragedy_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/violent_crime_as_revenge_tragedy_image.jpg?h=6225eb0c&itok=WRienUwV) [### Writing in College: An Example and an Explanation ](https://academeblog.org/2016/05/25/writing-in-college-an-example-and-an-explanation/) ![writing_in_college_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/writing_in_college_image.jpg?itok=-9zY0UM6) [### Why We Write in College ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24871699) ![why_we_write_in_college_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/why_we_write_in_college_image.jpg?h=0762662f&itok=8FhnYsDw) [### The Word "Criminology": A Philology and a Definition ](https://ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/405-the-word-criminology-a-philology-and-a-definition) ![the_word_criminology_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/the_word_criminology_image.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=KF81yxB_) [### "t started like a guilty thing": The Beginning of Hamlet and the Beginning of Modern Politics ](http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/24/it-started-like-a-guilty-thing-the-beginning-of-hamlet-and-the-beginning-of-modern-politics/) ![it_started_like_a_guilty_thing_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/it_started_like_a_guilty_thing_image.jpg?itok=hIcbsxRO) [### Why I Write on My Mobile Phone ](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Write-on-My-Mobile-Phone/151631) ![why_i_write_on_my_mobile_phone_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/why_i_write_on_my_mobile_phone_image.jpg?h=f787dafd&itok=XsExx55S) [### Shakespeare and Criminology ](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1741659014537655) ![shakespeare_and_criminology_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeare_and_criminology_image.jpg?itok=jm2qbqpb) [### Hath Not a Jew a Nose? Or, the Danger of Deformity in Comedy ](https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/jeffreywilson/files/jeffrey_r._wilson_22hath_not_a_jew_a_nose_or_the_danger_of_deformity_in_comedy22_2013.pdf) ![Hath not a jew a nose](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/hath_not_a_jew_a_nose_image.jpg?h=0762662f&itok=AIaZKwU0) ### Interpretive Community ![Interpretive Community](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/interpretive_community_image.jpg?h=905f7fe7&itok=udnP03tr)