Sebastian Williams


Assistant Professor of English

Phone: 304-637-1431
Campus Location: Albert Hall

Education

  • 2021 Ph.D., English, Purdue University
  • 2016 M.A., English, Wright State University, and Certificate of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • 2013 B.A., English, Heidelberg University

Teaching Areas

  • Writing in New Media
  • Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Professional Writing
  • Literary Studies
  • Digital Rhetoric

Research Areas

  • Modernist Literature and Culture
  • Disability Studies
  • Environmental Health
  • Bioethics

Publications

  • 2021 “Self-Consumption: Cannibalism and Viral Outbreak in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Advance Access, DOI: 10.1093/isle/isab007.
  • 2021 “Proximity and Animal Ethics in ‘The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O’Neill.’” Eugene O’Neill Review, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp.41-53.
  • 2020 “Woolf’s Bioethics: Animals and Dependency in ‘The Widow and the Parrot.’” Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 26, no. 1, 2020, pp. 105–20.
  • 2020 “Anthropocentric Ableism and Virginia Woolf’s Flush.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 53, no. 1, 2020, pp. 107–23.
  • 2020 “Rogue Bodies: Disabled Antiheroes and the Pop-Culture Saga in Vikings” (co-authored with Alexander Long). Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 53, no. 1, 2020, pp. 129–47. DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12885.
  • 2019 “The Gothic Grotesque: Disability and Monstrosity in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2019, pp. 461–76.
  • 2019 “Silence and Mediation: Narrative Form in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” South Asian Review, vol. 40, no 1-2, 2019, pp. 20–33. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2019.1572285.
  • 2016 “Contaminated Salts and Volatile Ethers: Jekyll and Hyde and the Pharmacy Act.” Journal of Stevenson Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2016, pp. 149–66.