Merle Williams
University of the WitwatersrandMerle Williams (co-course-lead) is a Professor Emerita of English at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a research associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States. She has served several terms as Head of the Department of English and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in the Humanities. Her research interests include the relations between literature and philosophy, trauma theory, Romantic poetry and fiction from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author of Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (Cambridge University Press, reprinted 2009) and is editing The Awkward Age for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Recently edited collections include Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South (Routledge, 2020) and Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance (Routledge, 2022). She has been a visiting researcher in the USA, Germany and Sweden.
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