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Andreá N. Williams is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, specializing in African American literature and 19th-century U.S. literature. Her research focuses on class dynamics, Black print culture, and the intersections of race, gender, and labor. She is the author of Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction (2013) and is currently researching unmarried African American women in early 20th-century America. Williams has received teaching awards and prestigious fellowships, including from the National Humanities Center and ACLS.
Education: BA from Spelman College, MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her courses include 'All the Single Ladies,' 'Labor, Class and U.S. Literature,' and 'Growing Up Black: African American Coming-of-Age Narratives.'
Research interests span Black periodicals, life writing, and U.S. women writers. Her recent work emphasizes archival recovery and singleness studies, as seen in her 2022 article on Black women's collections. Awards include Ohio State leadership accolades and grants from Rutgers University and ACLS.
Her publications analyze themes like postbellum Black fiction, recovery of marginalized voices, and religious rhetoric in 19th-century texts. Current projects explore unmarried Black women’s cultural contributions, blending literary analysis with social history.
