Jeffrey J. Williams is a professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. For fall 2019, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Jeffrey J. Williams
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Writing on Public Books
The Feminist Press at 50: An Interview with Jamia Wilson
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The Ruse of Fiction: An Interview with Amitava Kumar
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The New Working Class
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