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Dr Williams' research interests include:
- literature and culture of the pre-1945 period;
- special emphasis on H.G. Wells and James Joyce;
- interdisciplinary interests, especially in writing and cinematicity, documentary and reportage.
He has supervised AHRC-funded doctoral research projects on ‘Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture’, 'The Multi-layered Image in Film: Silent Cinema, Art Cinema and Intertextuality' and 'To Live through the Lens - The Novels and Screenplays of Alan Sharp', among others. He is also supervising PhD projects on the Science Fiction of Robert Duncan Milne, awarded an AHRI International Research Scholarship, James Joyce and the Stream of Consciousness and a History of Gynotopias.
He is convenor for MLitt English Studies ‘internal pathway’ in Science Fiction and tutors for the first semester core module and options early period science fiction and film.
Dr Williams was director of the School of Humanities Research Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures (January 2017-August 2019), the main research centre for Literary Studies, Film, Drama and Creative Writing. His research and public engagement has also played a major part in Dundee's role as the Scottish Hub for the UK's annual national festival of the Humanities: Being Human.
Dr Williams has chaired the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG) which researches aspects of the relationship between verbal and visual representation and holds its annual conferences in early summer. He is also a member of the Executive Board of IAWIS/AIERTI and of the editorial board of The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society.
SWIG hosted the major international conference, ‘Riddles of Form: Exploration and Discovery in Word and Image’, the 10th Triennial Conference of the International Association for Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image (IAWIS/AIERTI) at the University of Dundee (11-15 August 2014).
Essays from the conference were published as Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery (Brill, 2019).
His most recent monograph is James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film (Edinburgh UP, 2020), which has received excellent reviews in leading journals in the field: The James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Broadsheet, Irish Studies Review, etc.
Dr Williams’s forthcoming publications include:
- ‘Looking beyond the Mutoscope: Cinematicity in ‘Nausicaa’, Modernism/Modernity (forthcoming in 2022).
- ‘The Cyclopean Eye: Charity Bazaars, Cinematicity and Defamiliarised Vision in Ulysses’, for the James Joyce Quarterly (forthcoming in 2022).
- ‘Magic Lanternism and Joyce’s “Linguistic Palette”’, to accompany major international exhibition by painter and photographer Werner Schmidt on ‘The Colours of Ulysses‘, at the A.K.T. Pforzheim. Published for the centenary of Joyce’s novel in 2022, in a two-volume set ed. Jakob Brüssermann, Janusz Czech, Christoph Poetsch and Werner Schmidt.
- With leading Joyce scholar Cleo Hanaway-Oakley at Bristol University, Dr Williams is co-editing a volume of 35 essays on Joyce commissioned by EUP for their prestigious Writers and the Arts series (estimated publication date: 2023/4). He is also co-writing the introduction and contributing a chapter (with illustrations) on ‘Joyce and Pre-Filmic Visual Media’.
- With PhD student Ari Brin, is currently co-editing a critical edition of selected stories by Robert Duncan Milne, the ‘lost Scottish father of translatlantic science fiction’.
With Dr Jeremy Brooker, chair of the Magic Lantern Society of the UK and Ireland, Dr Williams has devised a live collaborative show to demonstrate the influence of Victorian lanternism on Joyce’s fiction based on his latest monograph. This public talk and entertainment will be staged (among other venues) in Dundee, at the James Joyce Symposium in Dublin in June 2022, to mark the centenary of Ulysses, and also at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Bristol later the same month, if Covid conditions remain favourable.
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The Multilayered Image on Film
Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities
1/10/16 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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A New Palingenesis
Murray, C., Williams, K., Millar, N., Nero, M., O'Brien, A. & Herd, D., Nov 2022, Dundee: UniVerse. 24 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds: Aliens ‘R Us
Williams, K., 2021, Massolit.Research output: Other contribution
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The Ghost of Futures Past: Resurrecting The Science Fiction of Robert Duncan Milne
Williams, K., 15 Nov 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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The Scientific Muse: Poems for Robert Duncan Milne
Wyvern Poets, McCallum, B., Canning, R., Prescott, A., McKenzie, R., Cameron, G., Robertson, G. C., Petrie, A., Neville, R., Williams, K. (ed.), Williams, F. & O'Brien, A., 2021, Dundee: University of Dundee. 17 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Travels in Scottland: Poems for Walter Scott @250
Wyvern Poets, McCallum, B., McKenzie, R., Neville, R., Robertson, G. C., Prescott, A., Canning, R., Petrie, A., Gee, M., Marshall, P., Newman, I., Cameron, G. & Williams, K., Sep 2021, Dundee: UniVerse. 24 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Ghost of Futures Past
Keith Williams (Organiser)
4 Apr 2022 → 23 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition
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Story Cafe Sci-Fi special edition: Robert Duncan Milne Selected Stories
Keith Williams (Speaker)
7 Jun 2022Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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The Ghost of Futures Past: Resurrecting the Lost Scottish Father of Transatlantic Science Fiction
Keith Williams (Speaker)
6 Apr 2022Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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Milne, H.G. Wells and cinematic ‘time travel’
Keith Williams (Speaker)
30 Oct 2021Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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The Ghost of Futures Past
Keith Williams (Organiser)
12 Nov 2021 → 20 Nov 2021Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
Press / Media
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Robert Duncan Milne: Celebrating ‘little known’ 19th century science fiction writer in his hometown of Cupar
29/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film by Keith Williams (review)
2/03/21
1 Media contribution
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Review of James Joyce and cinematicity: before and after film by Keith Williams, Edinburgh University Press, 2020
24/01/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Cupar’s Victorian sci-fi pioneer who imagined our world then vanished in time
20/01/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research