Jarred Wiehe
he/him
Director, College Transition Programs
Academic Programs
Jarred Wiehe is a literary and cultural historian of genders, sexualities, and disabilities with expertise in Restoration and eighteenth-century literatures. His research explores the consequences and limitations of Enlightenment fictions, especially as such exclusionary logics continue to haunt contemporary institutions and cultural productions.
His work can be found in Restoration, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry.
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Professional Background
Associate Director of Student Success, Colorado College 2024-present
Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi 2018-2024
Research and Teaching Interests
Disability Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Theories, Undergraduate Student Success
Research and Teaching Interests
Disability Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Theories, Undergraduate Student Success
Recent Publications
“Robert Kirkman’s Gays in the Gutter: Anti-Queer Censorship, Obscenity, and The Walking Dead” in Out of the Gutters: Obscenity and Comics. Eds. Jorge Santos, Jr. and Patrick Lawrence. University of Texas Press. (forthcoming 2024)
“Loose Ends: Eighteenth-Century Afterpieces and Queer Pleasure.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 63, no. 4 (2024)
“Barbarian (2022) and The Politics of Dysfluency in U.S. American Soundscape.” Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. August 2023.
“‘Ach for It’: Antony Leigh, Autonomy, and Queer Pleasures in the Restoration Playhouse.” Queer Culture and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Studies, special issue of Humanities, vol. 10, no. 94, 2021.
“American Horror Story and the Violence of Normalcy: Asylum, Freak Show, and Policing Compulsory Able-Bodiedness.” Gender, Sexuality and Queer Identities in American Horror Story: Critical Essays. Ed Harriet E. H Earle. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland, 2019. 26-42.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Mean Mezzotints: Philip Dawe, Engraving Flesh, and Print Disability Aesthetics.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Toronto, Canada. April 2024.
“‘Take Care, Sam’: Death Stranding, Embodied Play, and the Aesthetics of Accessibility.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January 2024
“Let’s Plays: Video Games, Performance, and Streaming the Consequences of the Enlightenment on Twitch.tv” in “Performance and Digital Technologies.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. St. Louis, MO. March 2023.
“Disability and Performance” in “New Directions in Long Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA. January 2023.
“Performed/Deformed: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stagecraft and Experiencing Disabilities.” Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies. Los Angeles, CA. October 2022.
“Maria Edgeworth’s Dumb Andy and Staging Moral-Curative Futurism” in “Disability Performances I.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Baltimore, MD. March 2022.
“Afterpieces, Feeling, and Genre: Remapping Heterosocializing Affect with The Tragedy of Jane Shore and The What D’Ye Call It?” in “Afterpieces (a Roundtable).” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Virtual. April 2021.