Ben Jeffery is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2020, and he was previously a Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. His research focuses on Shakespeare and literary criticism. He is currently at work on a book about The Tempest."
Publications
"Beginner's Magic: The Organization of Reality in The Tempest," Representations 170:1, Spring 2025, 110-133.