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Joe Williams is an Associate Tutor in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on postwar British literary culture, particularly the role of universities in shaping literary tastes through figures like Malcolm Bradbury and Lorna Sage. He holds a CHASE/AHRC-funded PhD exploring the intersection of academia and literary culture in postwar Britain.
Teaching includes modules on M.R. James, the 'Crime Through Time' narrative, and 'Ulysses in Ten Weeks.' He also developed a module on the cultural history of the 1990s, analyzing texts like Nirvana's Nevermind and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.
Williams is a freelance journalist, contributing reviews to Literary Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and others. In 2023, he became Reviews Editor of Critical Quarterly, inviting pitches on academic and cultural works. He has served as Fiction Judge for the East Anglian Book Awards (2022) and actively participates in academic networks like the Consortium for the Humanities and the British Archive for Contemporary Writing.
Research interests span campus novels, modernist legacies, sport symbolism, and the future of humanities education. His work challenges Oxbridge-centric narratives, emphasizing pluralism and democratic literary engagement.
