College of Humanities People

Andrea Williams, Assistant Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/

Office Information
512 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: williams.2941@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-8765

Office Hours:
Spring 2011 Office Hours: Tues 2-3, Wed 4-5

Education:
Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

General Background:
African American Literature and Culture; American Literature to 1900. Her current book project, "Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction" examines how late-nineteenth-century black authors represent intraracial stratification and class mobility. She is a co-editor of the volume _North Carolina Slave Narratives_ (UNC Press, 2003). Her research interests further include 19th-century U.S. women's writing, black periodical fiction, the works of Sutton Griggs, and singleness and sexuality in American culture. She recently has taught undergraduate courses such as "Black Coming-of-Age Narratives" and "The American Dream, 1865-1914," as well as a graduate seminar on "The 1890s in African American Literature and Culture."

African American Literature
Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
American Literature to 1900