B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Virginia
Carolyn Williams specializes in Victorian poetry, autobiography, theater, and visual culture. She serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in English. She is also the Director of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series, the Writers from Rutgers Reading Series, and the Writers House. She is a member of the Executive Committee at the Center for Cultural Analysis and leads the Center's Symposium for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Outside Rutgers, she serves on the Supervisory Board of the English Institute and the Executive Board of the Dickens Project.
The author of Tranfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism (Cornell University Press, 1989), she is currently completing a book on the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and working on another about the aesthetic form of Victorian melodrama. Her other publications include:"Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama," in Compassion (Selected essays from The English Institute), ed. Lauren Berlant (Routledge, 2004); "Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire" (ELT, 2002); "Pater's Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival," in Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Suzy Anger (Cornell University Press, 2001); "Intimacy and Theatricality: Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy," (Victorian Literature and Culture, 2000); "Parody, Pastiche and the Play of Genres: The Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan," in The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives, ed. Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Ashgate, 2000); "Utopia, Limited: Nationalism, Empire, and Parody in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan," in Culture and Politics at the Fin de Siècle, ed. Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken (Cambridge, 1994); and "Closing the Book: The Intertextual End of Jane Eyre," in Victorian Connections, ed. Jerome J. McGann (University of Virginia Press, 1989). She also edited a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on the relationship between Victorian studies and cultural studies (volume 27, number 2, 1999).
She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004-2005, and the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999.
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