FULL-TIME FACULTY PROFILE: DR. JOCELYN WILLIAMS

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Dr. Jocelyn Williams Associate Professor, English Phone: (403) 254-3767 Jocelyn.Williams (at) stmu.ca Office: A206 Ph.D. English Literature, Memorial University, Newfoundland M.A. English Literature, University of Toronto B.A. English Literature, St. Francis Xavier, Nova Scotia Specialization/research interests: Canadian literature, Catholic literature, trauma theory, life writing, 18th and 19th century literature, and poetry.

Recent and Current Scholarly Activity

2010  “They Receive and Give:” For the Love of Catholic Literature.  Carillon.  Calgary, Alberta.  February.
2009   “One Fluid Discourse: An Academic’s Incest Autobiography.”   a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.  Forthcoming
2009  “Encouraging Discussion Through the Study of Literature.”  Carillon.  Calgary, Alberta.  May.
2008 Book Review of Barbara Gowdy’s Helpless.  The Nashwaak Review.
2006 “The Rifle Kicks Hard Both Ways: Rereading David Adams Richards For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down.”  The Nashwaak Review.  16/17.1: 46-66.

Conferences

2010 Beyond Horizontal: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Prose.  Canada and Beyond.  Huelva, Spain.  May
2009 Cocktail Queer: Indirection and Mix in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Prose. ACCUTE, Carleton University, Ottawa, May.
2007 Prey Tell: Hunting in Canadian Literature.  The Eleventh Annual CBU Storytelling Symposium, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, June.
2006 Voice Not Victim: The Magic of Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.  The Tenth Annual CBU Storytelling Symposium, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, June.
2006 (Re)Facing Freud: The Williamson Approach.  Freudian Legacy, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress, York University, Toronto, May. 
2006 “Misleading: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fiction.”  ACCUTE, Congress 2006, York University, Toronto, May.