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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

The Great Stratification 1
The Chronicle Review
The Great Stratification
By Jeffrey J. Williams December 2, 2013
The changing role of the professor has created a huge new subclass of academic worker.
Stefan Collini, a literary critic at the U. of Cambridge, puts his writing in the service of “engaging the reader, which a great many academic writers don’t show much sign of.”
The Chronicle Review
Stefan Collini on Intellectuals and Politics
By Jeffrey J. Williams August 26, 2013
A scholar of intellectual history, the Cambridge professor has entered the thick of controversies over higher education in England.
Gordon Hutner, shown in his office at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, started the journal "</I>American Literary History" almost 25 years ago.
Consider This
The Editor as Power Broker
By Jeffrey J. Williams December 17, 2012
Gordon Hutner’s journal “American Literary History” has shaped criticism for a quarter-century.
Unlucky Jim: The Rise of the Adjunct Novel 1
The Chronicle Review
Unlucky Jim: the Rise of the Adjunct Novel
By Jeffrey J. Williams November 12, 2012
Fiction about academe is starting to catch up to our era.
As a political theorist, Walzer says, he has a special freedom to move between the academic and political worlds.
The Chronicle Review
Michael Walzer’s Politics, in Theory and Practice
By Jeffrey J. Williams June 3, 2012
A journalist as well as a scholar, he has road-tested his classroom ideas in the real world for 50 years.
Book Angst 1
The Review
Book Angst
By Jeffrey J. Williams May 22, 2012
Critics admit that their most well-known works aren’t always their favorites.
An Emerging Field Deconstructs Academe 1
The Chronicle Review
An Emerging Field Deconstructs Academe
By Jeffrey J. Williams February 19, 2012
“Critical university studies” has reached a critical mass.
In her new book, Judith "Jack" Halberstam calls her approach "low theory," and she finds room to discuss popular culture and even to add some humor.
The Review
Queer 2.0
By Jeffrey J. Williams January 1, 2012
Judith “Jack” Halberstam on Susan Faludi, Lady Gaga, heteroflexibility, and the bathroom problem.
The Brief, Wondrous Life of the Theory Journal 5
The Review
The Brief, Wondrous Life of the Theory Journal
By Jeffrey J. Williams October 16, 2011
The budget bell tolls for these heady showcases.
The Statistical Turn in Literary Studies 1
The Chronicle Review
The Statistical Turn in Literary Studies
By Jeffrey J. Williams January 2, 2011
Humanists usually take to math like cats to water. But literary critics of late are embracing quantitative measures.
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