Lindsey Williams

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Lindsey Williams

Assistant Professor of English

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Biography

Lindsey Carman Williams, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College. She previously was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of South Florida. She earned her MA in Literary, Textual, and Cultural Studies from University of Central Florida in 2018 and a PhD in English from Washington State University in 2022. Her research focuses on British literature, women’s Gothic (specifically ghost stories and supernatural tales), feminist science and technology studies, and feminist disability theory. Carman Williams’s work has been published in Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Language Arts Journal of Michigan.

Awards & Accomplishments

  • Nancy Van Doren Dissertation and Defense Award for exemplary dissertation and oral defense, spring 2022
  • WSU College of Arts and Sciences Doctorate Student Achievement Award (Humanities), spring 2022
  • Joseph Arthur Soldati Summer Dissertation Scholarship, Department of English, WSU, summer 2021
  • “Pairing Gothic Classics with YA books,” Publicly Engaged Fellows program/NEH grant, Center for the Arts and Humanities, WSU, summer 2021

Publications

  • “‘Do not say it was fancy! I saw it advance:’ The Female Spiritualist, Hysteria, and the Failure of Treatment and Cure in British and American Women’s Ghost Stories,” “Dialogues with the Dead” special issue, Revenant Journal (revisions/peer review stage)
  • “Teaching Social Justice Through Gothic Young Adult Literature,” co-authored with Ashley Boyd, PhD, Language Arts Journal of Michigan (https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lajm/vol38/iss2/13/), fall 2023
  • “Gender, Space, and the Female Spiritualist in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘Behold, It was a Dream!’ (1872) and Mary E. Braddon’s ‘The Shadow in the Corner’ (1879),” Women’s Writing, vol. 29, issue 1, summer 2022
  • “The Impact of the Female Medium’s Cultural Authority in Rhoda Broughton’s Ghost Stories,” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, issue 16.1 (http://ncgsjournal.com/issue161/williams.html), spring 2020

What’s your favorite thing about the Columbia College campus?

My favorite thing about the Columbia College campus is the close-knit atmosphere. Wherever you walk on the campus, there is a wonderful sense of community and friendliness.