Korey Williams

Korey Williams is a Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, specializing in Poetry & Poetics, African American Literature, Affect Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophies of Love.

• Education: B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University, M.A. in Humanities from University of Chicago (2014), MFA in Poetry from Cornell University

His research focuses on the intersection of poetic form, African American literary traditions, and affective dimensions of art and philosophy. Williams has been recognized with a National Poetry Series Finalist distinction in 2017.

Recent courses include ENGL 25988 James Baldwin, exploring Baldwin's role as a 'witness' to inequality and his concept of the artist as an emotional historian.

• Publications appear in Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry, Fogged Clarity, Winter Tangerine, The Offing, and Narrative Magazine