Dr James Williams
Academic Background
Dr Williams read English Language and Literature at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a Casberd Scholar and won a Gibbs Prize. He received his PhD from Cambridge, where he was an honorary External Research Student at Trinity College and was awarded a Millennium Scholarship. He taught widely in Cambridge and Oxford before taking up his post at Jesus.
Undergraduate Teaching
Victorian Literature (1832-1900), Modern Literature (1900 to the present day).
Research Interests
Poetry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, prosody, bibliography, translation, the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
Recent articles:
'Tennyson's Once and Future King', Tennyson Research Bulletin, November 2009.
'Beckett Between the Words', forthcoming 2010.
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
Classics and English
English Language and Literature
English and Modern Languages
History and English
See also Faculty of English website.
