Graduate Studies in English

Ph.D. Student Profiles

Jonas Williams

M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida
A.B. English, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University

Research Interests:
Creative Writing Studies, 20th-Century Literature, Pedagogy

Dissertation Title: Literary Know-How: Pedagogy as Trope and Technique (in progress).

Select Publications:
“Why and How to Make a New Milieu” (fiction), elimae

Select Conference Presentations:
"Teaching Creative Writing and Literature After Olson," Re-Viewing Black Mountain College: An International Conference, University of North Carolina Asheville, 2009.

"Bodily Learning, Experimentation, and Higher-Order Change," Constructing the Body, Constructing the Text: Literary and Scientific Discourses of the Human Body, University of Albany, SUNY, 2008.

“Extra-Intentional Development: Photography, Variety, and Memory Intervention,”
Twenty-First Annual Conference, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts:
“Code,” Portland, ME, 2007.

Select Fellowships and Awards:
Fiction Contest Winner, Columbia: A Journal
Presidential Fellowship, University at Albany, SUNY

Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 102Z: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 205Z: Introduction to Writing in English Studies
ENG 223: Short Story
ENG 226: Literature in the Information Age
ENG 300W: Expository Writing

jw943365@albany.edu



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