William Mckenzie

William Mckenzie is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in the LEA (Licence Échanges Internationaux Angers) program at the Faculty of Humanities (CHUS) of the University of Angers (UCO). He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London, along with MA (Research) from Oxford, MPhil from King's College Cambridge, and BA from Warwick. His research focuses on Shakespeare studies, Renaissance literature, contemporary narcissism theory, migration ethics, and the interplay between silence and temporality in art and literature.

• Educations:
  • PhD in Comparative Literature, University of London
  • MA (Res), University of Oxford
  • MPhil, King's College Cambridge
  • BA, University of Warwick

Research Interests: Mckenzie explores themes such as Shakespearean dramatic structure, post-humanist critiques of anthropocentrism, digital ethics (cyberbullying), migration's ethical dimensions, and the symbolic role of silence in literature. He actively organizes international conferences like MOBIL: Migrations, Mobilities, Mobilizations and Ethics and participates in projects like AuFic: Gendered Representations of Autism in Fiction.

Recent Articles: His 2023 work on Waves and Wavelengths in The Winter’s Tale and Hamlet analyzes temporal dynamics in Shakespearean tragedy, while his 2022 paper Black Mirrors examines narcissism's intersection with cyberbullying. Earlier publications include studies on Ovidian obscenity, Montaigne's educational philosophy, and Flaubert/Beckett narrative failures.

Grants & Teams: Leads the CHUS research team and collaborates with IDEA (Université de Lorraine). Active in UCO's MOBIL project on migration ethics and 2S2T interdisciplinary initiatives.

Labs/Teams: Core member of CHUS (Humanities) and IDEA (Literary Studies), involved in cross-faculty collaborations.