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Dr. David Williams

Professor Emeritus
Office: 241 St. Paul's College
Phone: (204) 474-8535
Email: david.williams@umanitoba.ca

   

 


Photo: Danielle Schaub
Source: Reading Writers Reading (University of Alberta Press/ Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2006)

Education: PhD (University of Massachusetts), MA (University of Massachusetts), BA (University of Saskatchewan)

Recent Courses:

  • Literature Since 1900
  • Media & Memory
  • Media & Nation
  • Milton
  • Milton & the Levellers
  • Contemporary Critical Theory

Areas of Specialization:

Canadian Novel; Media Theory; Milton; Great War Literature; American Literature

Other Interests / Recent Undertakings:

  • Milton’s Leveller God: MQUP, 2017
  • Awarded F.E.L. Priestley Prize by ACCUTE at Congress 2017 for “Film and the Mechanization of Time"
    Named runner-up for Canadian Literature Prize by CL at Congress 2015 for “Seeing Ghosts”
  • Ed. Will Bird's And We Go On (1930; MQUP, 2014) with "Introduction" and "Afterword"
  • Finalist, Gabrielle Roy Prize (2009), ACQL, for Media, Memory, and the First World War (MQUP)
  • Winner, Gabrielle Roy Prize (2003), ACQL, for Imagined Nations: Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction (MQUP)
  • Confessional Fictions: Portraits of the Artist in the Canadian Novel (U Toronto P, 1991)
  • Faulkner’s Women: The Myth and the Muse, 1977
  • Editorial Board of Canadian Literature (UBC), 2006-2016.
  • completing a novel entitled The Resurrection of Louis Riel.
  • published three novels with Anansi (The Burning Wood, The River Horsemen, Eye of the Father.)

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