Clinton Williamson

(he/him/his)

2022 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): David Kazanjian
"Nebulous Figures: A Cultural History of an American Riotocracy, 1848-1929"

Postdoctoral Associate, Kilachand Honors College, Boston University

Interests

19th-Century American Literature 20th-Century American Literature African American and Ethnic American Literatures Cinema and Media Studies Comparative Race and Empire Studies Transatlantic Studies

Awards

2021 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students

2020 English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship

News & Events

2022/07/15

Dissertation Defense: Clinton Williamson

2021/04/01

Penn English doctoral candidate Clint Williamson receives SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student

2019/04/24

Workshop: Clint Williamson (WIP), "‘In Which a Variety of Characters Appear’: The Ragged Formations of a Nebula in Melville’s The Confidence Man"

2018/04/09

Clint Williamson (WIP)

Courses Taught

fall 2021

ENGL 266.301 Crimes and Criminality in Early America

spring 2020

ENGL 265.301 The American South in 20th Century Literature and Film

fall 2019

ENGL 053.601 American Novels: 1865-1914

fall 2018

ENGL 085.601 War and Representation

fall 2017

ENGL 200.305 Speculation: American Futures

spring 2016

ENGL 102.411 Vietnam War in Literature and Film