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Contact Information:
SEBASTIAN WILLIAMS will1651@purdue.edu
567-207-8164

RESEARCH INTERESTS: - British and Irish Literature (1880 to Present)

- Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce
- Mass Media and Early Cinema

1 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

1.1 EDUCATION
PhD in Literary Studies, Purdue University (in progress)

MA in English Literature, Wright State University (May 2016)

Certificate of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Managing Editor of Emily Dickinson Journal

BA in English Literature, Heidelberg University (Dec. 2013)

Minor in German Language and Literature
Universitt Heidelberg Study Abroad Program (Feb. 2013 Aug. 2013)

1.2 PUBLICATIONS
Silence and Mediation: Narrative Techniques in Sidhwas Cracking India. South Asian Review
[forthcoming].

Contaminated Salts and Volatile Ethers: Jekyll and Hyde and the Pharmacy Act. Journal of Stevenson
Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 149-66.

They speak it just like us only funnier: Dialect as a Performance of Cultural Difference in Andrea Levys
Small Island. Voices, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall 2015, pp. 12-14.

1.3 EDITING
Emily Dickinson Journal. 24.2, 25.1 (Fall 2015, Spring 2016). Managing Editor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP.
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1.4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Tick, tick, tick, went the machine: Time, Cinema, and Narrative in Woolfs Between the Acts. Space
Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. 25-27 May 2017. University of Mississippi.

Cybernetic Science Fiction: System and Environment in Jeanette Wintersons The Stone Gods. Finding
Frontiers: Then, Now, and Beyond. 11 March 2017. West Virginia University.

War, Cameras, and Membranes: Filmic Vision in Elizabeth Bowens The Heat of the Day. Midwestern
Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. 1-2 April 2016. Northern Illinois University.

The Murderess: Liminality and the Homo Sacer in Atwoods Alias Grace. Race, Class, Gender, and
Sexuality Symposium. 28 Feb 2016. Wright State University.

Thousands of people had already gathered: Mob Violence in German Cinema and Nathanael Wests
The Day of the Locust. Violent Bodies. 30-31 Oct. 2015. Ohio State University.

Cat got your tongue? Performing Dialects as Representations of Difference in Small Island. Thresholds
and Beyond: Exploring Abstract and Concrete Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers. 28 Mar. 2015. Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.

1.5 ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

Graduate Student Award (Humanities), WSU (April 2016)
English Graduate Award for Excellence, WSU (April 2016)
Honors Program, Heidelberg University (completed Dec. 2013)
Frederick Lemke Award in English, Heidelberg U (2013)
Helmut Fischer Prize in German Studies, Heidelberg U (2012)

1.6 MEMBERSHIPS
Space Between Society (2017 to present)

2 TEACHING
Purdue University Fall 2016 Present
Graduate Student Instructor
Introduction to Academic Writing and Research (ENGL 106) 4 credit hours
Sole instructor for introductory writing and rhetoric course. Focused on academic
writing and rhetorical strategies, as well as writing/literacy technologies. Students wrote
approx. 15,000 words over the course of the semester, meeting in a classroom,
conference setting, and computer lab.

Wright State University Spring 2015

Teaching Assistant
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Introduction to Literature (Good Books and Bad Weather) 3 credit hours

Course assistant for introductory literature survey that incorporated British
Romanticism and environmental studies. Major novels included Frankenstein and
Robinson Crusoe, and poetry centered by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, and Tennyson.
Connected with seminar on digital pedagogies in the literature classroom.

3 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Reynolds & Reynolds Dayton, OH Sept. 2014 Present
Content Writer
Writing and editing articles and technical specifications for marketing.
Freelance Content Writer (June 2016 to Present)
Writing and editing for Naked Lime Marketing division of R & R.
Advertiser-Tribune Tiffin, OH Nov. 2013 Aug. 2014
Newspaper Correspondent
Writing articles on local events, especially city politics.
German-American Institute Heidelberg, Germany Feb. 2013 Aug. 2013
Intern
Translating and writing articles and brochures on various learning programs, gap year
opportunity, and study-abroad programs. These were geared largely towards high-
school students as well as the local university population.

4 LANGUAGE
German (reading knowledge)