Lindsey Carman-Williams, PhD

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Lindsey Carman-Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor of English

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Biography

Lindsey Carman Williams, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English at 性视界. She previously was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of South Florida. She earned her MA in Literary, Textual, and Cultural Studies from University of Central Florida in 2018 and a PhD in English from Washington State University in 2022. Her research focuses on British literature, women鈥檚 Gothic (specifically ghost stories and supernatural tales), feminist science and technology studies, and feminist disability theory. Carman Williams鈥檚 work has been published in Women鈥檚 Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Language Arts Journal of Michigan.

Awards & Accomplishments

  • Nancy Van Doren Dissertation and Defense Award for exemplary dissertation and oral defense, spring 2022
  • WSU College of Arts and Sciences Doctorate Student Achievement Award (Humanities), spring 2022
  • Joseph Arthur Soldati Summer Dissertation Scholarship, Department of English, WSU, summer 2021
  • 鈥淧airing Gothic Classics with YA books,鈥 Publicly Engaged Fellows program/NEH grant, Center for the Arts and Humanities, WSU, summer 2021

Publications

  • 鈥溾楧o not say it was fancy! I saw it advance:鈥 The Female Spiritualist, Hysteria, and the Failure of Treatment and Cure in British and American Women鈥檚 Ghost Stories,鈥 鈥淒ialogues with the Dead鈥 special issue, Revenant Journal (revisions/peer review stage)
  • 鈥淭eaching Social Justice Through Gothic Young Adult Literature,鈥 co-authored with Ashley Boyd, PhD, Language Arts Journal of Michigan (https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lajm/vol38/iss2/13/), fall 2023
  • 鈥淕ender, Space, and the Female Spiritualist in Rhoda Broughton鈥檚 鈥楤ehold, It was a Dream!鈥 (1872) and Mary E. Braddon鈥檚 鈥楾he Shadow in the Corner鈥 (1879),鈥 Women鈥檚 Writing, vol. 29, issue 1, summer 2022
  • 鈥淭he Impact of the Female Medium鈥檚 Cultural Authority in Rhoda Broughton鈥檚 Ghost Stories,鈥 Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, issue 16.1 (http://ncgsjournal.com/issue161/williams.html), spring 2020

What鈥檚 your favorite thing about the 性视界 campus?

My favorite thing about the 性视界 campus is the close-knit atmosphere. Wherever you walk on the campus, there is a wonderful sense of community and friendliness.