Jeffrey J. Williams has published more than 90 long-form interviews with critics, writers, historians, philosophers, and editors, appearing in Minnesota Review, symplokē, Studies in the Novel, and elsewhere. He has written on the form in “Criticism Live” (Biography, 2018) and “The Rise of the Critical Interview” (New Literary History, 2019), and his book How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, & the University (2014) includes profiles drawing on various interviews.
Jeffrey J. Williams
Articles
A Shadow to the Visible Canon: A Conversation with Doran Larson
Jeffrey J. Williams interviews Doran Larson about the American Prison Writing Archive and his new book, “Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison.”
How We Socialize Now: A Conversation with Sheila Liming
Jeffrey J. Williams interviews Sheila Liming, author of the recent “Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time.”
Why Academe Needs Unions and How to Form One: An Interview with Robin Sowards
Jeffrey J. Williams interviews Robin Sowards about forming faculty unions.
Grotesque Inequity: Christopher Newfield on Higher Education
Christopher Newfield on the shift from public to privatized higher education, the imbalance in university funding, and how it's worsening our social crisis.
Color and Class: A Conversation with Joe William Trotter Jr.
Jeffrey J. Williams talks to Joe William Trotter Jr. about the history of the African American working class.
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”
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