Dr. Deborah Williams

Dr. Deborah Williams earned her Ph.D. in literature from New York University, where she also taught in the Expository Writing Program, primarily to first-year students. She has been a literature and writing professor for more than twenty years, including eleven years at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her books include Not in Sisterhood (Palgrave), about early twentieth-century women writers; The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (Oxford), about reading and citizenship; and she co-edited The Oxford History of the Novel in English Volume Eight: US Fiction Since 1940 (Oxford). Dr. Williams’s writings have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Paris Review Daily, and Brevity.