Research output per year
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
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Saving the Life That Is Your Own: Southern Women Writers' Great Migrations
Williams, K., 01 Oct 2020, In: Southern Cultures.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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 › peer-review
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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
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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) › peer-review
Prizes
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Dibner Library Residential Scholar, Smithsonian Institution
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Eta Omicron Nu Honors Service Organization Faculty Appreciation Honoree
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Faculty Research Initiatives Fund
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fellow, Institute for Inclusive Excellence, Texas Tech University
Williams, Keira (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Vipers, Momarchies, and Midcentury American Mother-Blaming at the Movies
Keira Williams (Presenter)
18 Apr 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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"I Can't Go Back": Popular Southern Feminism at the End of the Twentieth Century
Keira Williams (Presenter)
Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900-Present (Journal)
Keira Williams (Member of the advisory board)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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"African Amazons in the White City"
Keira Williams (Participant)
20 Sep 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Press / Media
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'Vanity Fair's Women on Women' Is a Missed Opportunity
23/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments'
04/10/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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"Bring the War Home" Digs Into the Roots of the White Power Movement (PopMatters.com)
05/06/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other