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Deanne Williams is a Professor in the Department of English at York University, affiliated with the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Her research specializes in Medieval and Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, and Girls’ Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.Phil. from Oxford, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto.
Her work bridges literary history and feminist scholarship, with notable publications like Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2023) and Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (2014). She has held prestigious fellowships at institutions including the Folger Shakespeare Library and the University of Toronto’s Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies.
Williams has received major awards such as the John Charles Polanyi Prize (2003), SSHRC grants (2014, 2019), and the Killam Research Fellowship (2018–2020). She founded York University’s Girls’ Studies Research Network and collaborates internationally on projects like Shakespeare and Diasporic Book History in Spain and Portugal, 1592–1820.
Her current research emphasizes early modern girlhood, supported by SSHRC grants, and she serves on the Executive Committee of the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto.
