Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
My research focuses on gender, race, power, popular culture, and crime in the twentieth-century United States. I am the author of Gendered Politics in the Modern South (2012) and Amazons in America (2019), and I am currently conducting research for a book on feminist pop culture in the American South.
Teaching
I teach courses on the American South, gender politics in the United States, pop culture and protest, and Wonder Woman.
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Research Output
Saving the Life That Is Your Own: Southern Women Writers' Great Migrations
Williams, K., 06 Jan 2020, (Accepted) In : Southern Cultures.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Amazons in America: Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Williams, K., 06 Mar 2019, Baton Rouge, LA, US: Louisiana State University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres (Review): Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election. Edited by Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll and Hinda Mandell. University of Rochester Press. Boydell. 2018. xvi + 374 pp. £19.99.
Williams, K., 11 Jun 2019, In : History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access
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Review, _Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture_, ed. Trent Brown,
Williams, K., 2018, Journal of Southern History.Research output: Other contribution
Feminism, Infanticide, and Intersectionality in Victorian America
Williams, K., 2017, Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulation and Resistance. Miller, M. H., Hager, T. & Jaremko Bromwich, R. (eds.). Ontario, Canada: Demeter PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Prizes
Dibner Library Residential Scholar, Smithsonian Institution
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Eta Omicron Nu Honors Service Organization Faculty Appreciation Honoree
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Faculty Research Initiatives Fund
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Fellow, Institute for Inclusive Excellence, Texas Tech University
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
Vipers, Momarchies, and Midcentury American Mother-Blaming at the Movies
Keira Williams (Presenter)
18 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
"African Amazons in the White City"
Keira Williams (Participant)
20 Sep 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Witches, Winged Amazons, and Wonder Woman: American Matriarchalism in the Early Twentieth-Century
Keira Williams (Presenter)
2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
"I Can't Go Back": Popular Southern Feminism at the End of the Twentieth Century
Keira Williams (Presenter)
Nov 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
"The American Amazon: Wonder Woman in the 1940s"
Keira Williams (Invited speaker)
28 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press / Media
'Vanity Fair's Women on Women' Is a Missed Opportunity
23/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments'
04/10/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
"Bring the War Home" Digs Into the Roots of the White Power Movement (PopMatters.com)
05/06/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other