Michael Williams

Berklee College of Music • Department of Liberal Arts • 1140 Boylston Street • Boston, Massachusetts • 02215 • USA

Emerson College • Institute of Liberal Arts • 120 Boylston Street • Boston, Massachusetts • 02116 • USA

RISD • Liberal Arts • 2 College Street • Providence, Rhode Island • 02903 • USA

Northeastern University • 360 Huntington Avenue • Boston, Massachusetts • 02115 • USA

phone • (617) 301-0174

email • mmwilliams@berklee.edu

email • michael_williams@emerson.edu

email • mwilli02@risd.edu

email • Fall 2021

Books

Author, Pervert-Schizoid-Woman, Cambridge, MA: Bleakswan Publications, December 2016.
Author, Perverse, Relational, Cinematic (in process, Bleakstone Publications).

Articles (selections)

Author, “Another Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Day in the Laughin’ Place: the Freedom of a Colored World in The Song of the South” (Under Review, Camera Obscura)
Author, “The Signifying Professor: The Arrest of Textuality” in journal Cultural Critique, September 2011.
Author, “‘Principles That Transcend Drugs or Money or Anything Like That’: The Monstrosity of Morality in No Country for Old Men” in journal New Review of Film and Television Studies, September 2011.
Author, “’This Is What Makes Time Travel Possible’: The Revolutionary Generation(s) of Master Signifiers in Back to the Future” in The Worlds of Back to the Future, McFarland, July 2010.
Author, “Giving Perverse Accounts” in journal Culture, Theory, and Critique, volume 51, issue 1, April 2010.
Author, “A Traversal Beyond the Pleasure Principle: From Pervert to Schizophrenic” in journal Theory & Event, vol 12, issue 3, September 2009.
Author, “Unreason and Alienation: A Review of History of Madness” in journal Subjectivity, vol 27, issue 1, July 2009.
Author, “Derrida on the Couch: The Perversity of Deconstruction” in journal The Symptom (the online journal of lacan dot com) Vol. 9, June 2008.
Co-Author, “Introduction to the Symptom” in journal Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, No. 10, Spring 2006.

Education

PhD, Visual and Cultural Studies Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 2006.
MA, Visual and Cultural Studies Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 2002.
BA (Honors), Literature and Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1998.

Honors and Committees (selections)

Student, Pedagogy Workshop, Berklee College of Music, 2008-2009.
Student, School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 2002.
University Tuition Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1998-2003.
University Teaching Assistantship, University of Rochester, 1998-2003.
Recipient, Five-Year Berklee Service Recognition Award, 2013.
Panelist, Berklee Teachers on Teaching, 2009, 2010, 2014

Teaching (selections)

Assistant Professor, Department of Theory, History of Art, Design, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2020-present

Courses:

“Philosophy and the Image: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism”

“Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Culture”

Teaching (selections)

Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2008-August 2018

Courses:

“Philosophy and the Image: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism”

“Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Culture”

“Race and Visual Culture”

“Gender and Sexuality in Visual Culture”

“American Television”

“Technology, Self, and Society”

“Art History 2”

“Western Civilization”

“World History"

Assistant Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2017-present.

Courses:

“Philosophy and the Image: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism”

“Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Culture”

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, August 2006-June 2008.

Courses:

“Philosophy and Critical Theory”

“Communication, Culture, And Popular Art”

“Media and Cultural Context”

“Documentary Cinema”

“Gender and Media”

“Youth Media”

“Communication Technologies and Gender”

Lecturer, Department of the Humanities, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, January 2005-May 2006.

Courses:

“Sexuality, Self, and Society”

“Technology, Self, and Society”

“Philosophy: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance”

Teaching/Research Assistant, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, September 1998-May 2003.

Courses:

“Introduction to Film Studies”

“Introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies”

“Aesthetic Theory”

Conferences and Presentations (selections)

“Perversion and Fetishism in Nurse Betty” presented at Film and Philosophy Conference, Gainesville, Florida, November 2010.
“The Death of the Spectator” presented at Popular Culture and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2010.
“The ‘Artful Solution’ of Disavowal: The Discourse of the Pervert in the Freudian Text” presented at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Annual Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 2008.
“Becoming-Perverse: The Splitting of Greg Kinnear in the Process of Nurse Betty” presented at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, September 2006.
“The Perversion of the Transference” presented at Translations, conference at the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2004.
“Identity Politics and the Phallus: A Misreading” presented at Women’s Studies Symposium, conference at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, March 2002.
“Practicing Theories of Subjectivity: George Simmel and the Work of Metaphor” presented at Theory and Practice, graduate conference at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, March 2001.