Jeffrey J. Williams
Professor of literary and cultural studies
Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey J. Williams, a professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University, is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center during fall 2019. He co-edits the Critical University Studies book series from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Stories by this Author
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The Review
Jane Gallop Is Talking About Sex Again
The controversial literary theorist on aging, falling out of fashion, #MeToo, and why teaching is inevitably erotic. -
The Review
The Rise of the Promotional Intellectual
So you’re on Twitter. That doesn’t make you a public intellectual. -
The Review
The Counterintuitive Critics
Walter Benn Michaels’s grad students have infused literary analysis with enlightened skepticism. -
The Review
Empire of Letters
Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books seeks to infuse literary judgment with a democratic spirit. -
The Review
The New Modesty in Literary Criticism
“Surface,” “distance,” and related approaches to reading reflect more grounded, if less culturally and politically ambitious, goals. -
The Chronicle Review
The ‘Contemporary’ Moment
Modern is musty, postmodern is passé, and the current struggles to stay cutting edge. Time flies. Can culture keep up? -
The Chronicle Review
An Academic Novel With a Twist
This tale is told through a year’s worth of recommendation letters. -
The Chronicle Review
Generation Jones
Neither boomer nor Gen X, an age group’s identity has become sandwiched between stereotypes. -
The Chronicle Review
An MLA History, Minus the Nostalgia
The convention’s evolution has long been marked by struggles over cultural politics, redefining literature and how it should be studied.
