Tami Williams
- Associate Professor, English
- Plan H Coordinator, English
Education
- PhD, University of California-Los Angeles, Film and Television
- MA, University of California-Los Angeles, Film and Television
- BA, University of California-Santa Barbara, Film Studies
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title | Meets |
|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH 743-001 | Film Theory and Criticism | W 4pm-6:40pm |
Research Interests
- Archive Studies
- Silent Cinema
- Classical Film Theory
- Global Women Directors
- National Cinemas (Europe, Asia, Middle East)
- Film and the Other Arts (music, dance, theater, painting)
- Cinema and Digital Culture
Biographical Sketch
Tami Williams (Ph.D., UCLA) is an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, President of , and a board member of . A 20th-century European, and French cinema specialist, she has a passion for silent film, archival studies, women directors, global cinema networks, and cinema’s relation to the other arts, as well as digital culture. She is a co-founder of (MEP-D-LOC) paper prints pilot, , and 51ÁÔÆæ Film Studies Archive Preservation Project, and a PI for the Center for 21st Century Studies, Teaching Media Archives Collaboratory, SURF - Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows and the 51ÁÔÆæ Media Studies Research Collaboratory.\n \n
Selected Publications
. 16.1.1 Ed. Williams, Tami M. University of Minnesota Press: The Moving Image. 2016.
Williams, Tami M. Chicago and Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2014.
. Ed. Williams, Tami M., Askari, Kaveh, Curtis, Scott, and Gray, Frank . New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Press. 2014.
Williams, Tami M. “The 'Silent Arts': Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris” A Companion to Early Cinema Ed. Gaudreault, André, Dulac, Nicolas, and Hidalgo, Santiago. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (2012): 99-118.
Williams, Tami M. 8.1 Ed. Petro, Patrice. (2011): p. 14-15.
Williams, Tami M. “Toward the Development of a Modern 'Impressionist' Cinema: Germaine Dulac's La Belle Dams sans merci (1921) and the Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale Archetype” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51.2 (2010): 404-419.