Dr. Wes Williams

Biography

Wes Williams is a University Lecturer in French and a Fellow at St Edmund Hall, specializing in Renaissance and early modern literature. His research focuses on pilgrimage writing and travel narratives, exploring the implications of these genres in literature from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Williams examines the works of notable writers such as Rabelais and Racine, along with influential figures like Shakespeare and Montaigne, particularly in relation to their impact on European film and theatre. He teaches courses on the French language and literature, emphasizing the literary and cultural developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as contemporary film, with a focus on directors like Fassbinder and Godard. In his graduate teaching, he encourages inquiries into the intersections of Renaissance literature and cultural history, and supervises doctorates in film studies while regularly instructing courses in Graduate Literary Theory. His publications cover various aspects of his research interests, including themes related to translation, poetics, and the narrative structure of early modern texts.

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