John Gulledge, Ph.D.
Research and Teaching Fields: Renaissance drama, disability studies, health humanities, and performance theory
Education:
| Institution | Degree | Year |
| University of South Carolina | B.A. in English | 2013 |
| Auburn University | M.A. in English | 2017 |
| Emory University | Ph.D. in English | 2023 |
Selected Publications:
- “Performing ‘Patientee’: Disability Performance in Samuel Foote’s Dramatic Satire,” Literature as Clinic: Patient Narratives of the Eighteenth Century, eds. Cynthia Richards and Lilith Todd (University of Delaware Press, Forthcoming 2026)
- “People in Drawers,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Special Issue: “Encountering Disability Through Wonder,” eds. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Devan Stahl (Autumn 2024).
- “Dis/Enabling Spaces: Crip-Ecologies of The Tempest,” in Disability, The Environment, and Colonialism, ed. Tatiana Konrad (Temple University Press, 2024).
- Inscription, no. 4 (Fall 2023) (Co-author with Taylor Hare).
- “Shakespeare Goes to Technical College,” in Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, and Performance, eds. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, and Justin Shaw (Palgrave Macmillan, Fall 2023) (Co-author with Kimberly Crews).
- “The Prosthetic Self: Disability and Drag in the Figure of RuPaul,” in Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media, eds. Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan (Lexington Books, April 2022).
- “The Puck Project: A Shakespeare Performance and Ethics Program for Kids,” Early Modern Culture Online, vol. 7 (Winter 2020) (Co-author with Kelly Duquette and Mary Taylor Mann).
Courses Taught:
- EN 211: Survey of British Literature I