Carolyn Williams

Carolyn Williams is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University.  Before going to Rutgers she taught in the BU English Department together with Professor Sedgwick and participated with her in the ID450 writing group.  She specializes in Victorian poetry, autobiography, theater, and visual culture. She is the author of Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Historicism (Cornell University Press, 1989) and GIlbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2010) and is currently working on a book 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). She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004-2005, and the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999.