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Professor Abigail Williams specializes in English Literature and serves as a Lord White Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's College, University of Oxford. Her recent work includes a book titled 'Reading Wrong: Alternative History Early Eighteenth-Century Literature,' which explores how texts were misread during the eighteenth century and includes intriguing parallels with contemporary digital culture. Her research interests include social history of reading and the significance of books in domestic contexts. She has also worked on the edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Journal Stella' as part of the Cambridge University Press's Complete Works of Jonathan Swift and led a research project on the Digital Miscellanies Index, creating a database of 1400 poetic miscellanies from the eighteenth century. Currently, she teaches courses on Restoration comedy, sociability in material culture, and supervises doctoral students on topics such as celebrity in the eighteenth century and the relationship between literature and materiality. In addition to her teaching and research, she participates in public outreach through radio programs and collaborative educational projects.
St Peter's College, University of Oxford • Oxford, England
Teaching undergraduate courses and supervising research in English Literature, specializing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.