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Travis D. Williams is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, specializing in Shakespeare, early modern literature, and the intersection of literature with science and mathematics. His research explores how mathematical practices and rhetorical strategies shaped early modern literary works. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
He has presented at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, Oxford’s All Souls College, and Lund University, and his work has been supported by fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the URI Center for the Humanities. His current book project, Literature and Mathematics: The Writing Arts in the Age of Shakespeare, examines the entanglement of literary and mathematical thought in early modern texts.
Williams teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and the history of science. His publications include co-editing Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (2012) and articles in Shakespeare Studies, Philological Quarterly, and Rhetorica. He has also received the Rhetorica Prize for his contributions to rhetorical history.
His research interests span early modern book history, the rhetoric of mathematical notation, and the history of scientific thought. He advocates for interdisciplinary approaches to literary analysis, emphasizing how seemingly distant disciplines like mathematics and rhetoric inform literary interpretation.
