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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Saving the Life That Is Your Own: Southern Women Writers' Great Migrations
Williams, K., 01 Oct 2020, (Early online date) 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
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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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"African Amazons in the White City"
Keira Williams (Participant)
20 Sep 2018Activity: 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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"Twinkling Fantasies of the New South: Popular Culture, Southern Feminism, and a Place Called Hope"
Keira Williams (Presenter)
10 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Witches, Winged Amazons, and Wonder Woman: American Matriarchalism in the Early Twentieth-Century
Keira Williams (Presenter)
2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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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Jami Attenberg Explores Patriarchal Fallout in 'All This Could Be Yours'
09/12/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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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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