Research Interests
Dr Williams's research interests include:
- literature and culture of the pre-1945 period;
- special emphasis on H.G. Wells and James Joyce;
- interdisciplinary interests, especially in writing and film, documentary and reportage.
Dr Williams is Chair of the Scottish Word and Image Group, which researches aspects of the relationship between verbal and visual representation and holds its annual conferences in May.
He is currently researching for another monograph: James Joyce and Cinematicity.
Major Publications
Books
H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007), vii + 279 pp.
Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism & After , ed. with Steven Matthews (London: Longman, 1997), vii + 221 pp.
British Writers and the Media 1930-45 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), x + 285 pp.
Articles
'"Cinematicity"' and Optical Speculation in Early H.G. Wells', in a special number of Comparative Critical Studies on 'Cinematicity', ed. by Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau (forthcoming 2009)
‘The Dis/Appearance of the Subject: Wells, Whale and The Invisible Man’, The Undying Fire, Annual of the H.G. Wells Society of the Americas, 2 (2003), 37-64
[see http://www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/undyingfire.html]
‘James Joyce and Early Cinema’, leading article in James Joyce Broadsheet , 58 (February 2000)
‘“History Stopped in 1936”: Post/Modernity and the Spanish Civil War’, Scottish Word and Image Group, (Summer 2001)
‘“The Unpaid Agitator”: Joyce’s influence on George Orwell and James Agee’, James Joyce Quarterly, 36:4 (Summer 1999), 729-64
''History as I Saw It': Inter-War New Reportage', Literature & History, 3rd series, 1:2 (1992), 39-54
'The Will to Objectivity: Egon Erwin Kisch's "Der Rasende Reporter", The Modern Language Review, 85:1 (1990), 92-106
Book Chapters
'Alien Gaze: Postcolonial Vision in The War of the Worlds', in H.G. Wells: New Directions, ed. by Steve McLean (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).
‘Seeing the Future: Visual Technology and Dystopia in Wells and Lang’, in Urban Mindscapes of Europe, ed. by Godela Weiss-Sussex and Franco Bianchini, European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 127-45.
‘Post-War Broadcast Drama,’, in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Literature, ed. by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), pp. 474-93.
Entries on Graham Greene, Humphrey Jennings and J. B. Priestley, in The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, ed. by Ian Aitken (London: Taylor and Francis, 2005), vol 1, pp. 520-22, vol 2, pp. 679-85 and vol 3, pp. 1073-75.
'Short Cuts of the Hibernian Metropolis: Cinematic Strategies in Dubliners', in A New and Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce’s Dubliners, ed. by Oona King (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004), pp. 154-67.
‘Symphonies of the Big City: Modernism, Cinema and Urban Modernity’, in The Great London Vortex: Modernist Literature and Art, ed. by Paul Edwards (Bath: Sulis Press, 2003), pp. 31-50.
‘Ulysses in Toontown: “Vision Animated to Bursting Point” in Joyce’s “Circe”’, in Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema , ed. by Julian Murphet and Lydia Rainford (Houndmills: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2003), pp. 96-121.
'Back from the Future: Katherine Burdekin and Science Fiction in the 1930s', in Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics, History, ed. by Maroula Joannou (Edinbugh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp. 151-64.
'Post/Modern Documentary: Orwell, Agee and the New Reportage', in Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After, ed. with Steven Matthews (Longman, 1997), pp. 163-181.
'Joyce's 'Chinese Alphabet': Ulysses and the Proletarians', in Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion, ed. by N Sammells and P Hyland (Macmillan, 1991), pp. 173-87.
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