Linda Ruth Williams Explained

Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961)^[1] is a professor of Film Studies in the department of Communications (of which she is head), Drama, and Film at the University of Exeter, UK.^[2] Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature (she has written widely on pornography, including a book on soft-core cinema), women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence.

Biography

Education

Williams went to school in Bristol, where she grew up, and followed her English degree at Sussex University with an MA in Critical Theory. She earned her PhD from Sussex on Lawrence, Nietzsche, Freud and Feminism.

Career

She has lectured at Liverpool, Manchester and Exeter Universities, and, between 1994 and 2017, at Southampton University.^[3] She is currently Professor of Film at the University of Exeter, and founding member of the never use Deodorant society.

She has written several books, including the influential Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject and The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, and is a regular contributor to the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine, and to radio programmes including Woman's Hour. Her 2006 book, Contemporary American Cinema was co-edited with fellow Southampton lecturer Michael Hammond.

Personal life

She is married to the film critic Mark Kermode, and they have two children.^[4] She is co-curator of the annual Shetland Film Festival, Screenplay, run by Shetland Arts, and is a founding organiser of the New Forest Festival.

Publications

Books

• Book: Williams . Linda R. . Wilcox . Helen . McWatters . Keith . Ann . Thompson . The body and the text: Hélène Cixous: reading and teaching . St. Martin's Press . New York . 1990 . 9780312057695 .
• Book: Williams, Linda R. . The Twentieth century: a guide to literature from 1900 to the present day . Bloomsbury Press . Bloomsbury Guides to Literature Series . London . 1992 . 9780747512875 . registration .
• Book: Lawrence, D. H. . Williams . Linda R. . Women in love . Knopf . New York . 1992 . 9780460873222 . (With introduction by Williams.)
• Book: Williams, Linda R. . Sex in the head: visions of femininity and film in D.H. Lawrence . registration . Wayne State University Press . Detroit . 1993 . 9780814325070 .
• Book: Williams, Linda Ruth . Critical desire: psychoanalysis and the literary subject . E. Arnold Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martinʼs Press . London New York New York . 1995 . 9780340568163 .
• Book: Williams, Linda Ruth . D.H. Lawrence . Northcote House in association with the British Council . Writers and Their Work Series . Plymouth, U.K . 1997 . 9780746307595 .
• Book: Williams, Linda Ruth . The erotic thriller in contemporary cinema . Indiana University Press . Bloomington . 2005 . 9780253347138 .
• Book: Williams . Linda R. . Hammond . Michael . Contemporary American cinema . Open University Press . Maidenhead . 2005 . 9781283337885 .

Book chapters

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Journal articles

• Williams . Linda R. . Submission and reading: feminine masochism and feminist criticism . New Formations, Modernism / Masochism . 7 . 9–19 . . Spring 1989 . Pdf.
• Williams . Linda R. . Men in feminism . Women: A Cultural Review . 1 . 1 . 63–65 . 10.1080/09574049008578023 . July 1990 .
• Williams . Linda R. . The Trial of D.H. Lawrence . . 4 . 2 . 154–161 . . July 1992 . 41555646 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Identity orgies . New Formations, Michel Foucault: J'accuse . 25 . 123–127 . . Summer 1995 . 23 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150217003544/http://www.newformations.co.uk/abstracts/nf25abstracts.html . 17 February 2015 . dead .
• Williams . Linda R. . Body talk: In the new G.I.Jane, Demi Moore shows her muscles as a US Navy SEAL. But is her shape-shifting purely about image control, asks Linda Ruth Williams . . 7 . 11 . 18–22 . . 1997 .
• Williams . Linda R. . "We've Been Forgetting that We're Flesh and Blood, Mother", "Glad Ghosts" and "Uncanny Bodies" . D. H. Lawrence Review. 27 . 2&3 . 233–253 . . 1997–1998 . (Editors: Howard J. Booth, Elizabeth M. Fox and Fiona Becket.)
• Williams . Linda R. . The edge of the razor . . 13–14 . . October 1999 . (Interview with director Catherine Breillat.)
• Williams . Linda R. . Blood sisters . . 11 . 6 . 36–37 . . June 2001 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Escape artist . . 22–25 . . October 2002 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Swing high, swing low . . 32–33 . . March 2003 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Songs for swinging lovers . . . December 2005 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Sleeping with the enemy . . . February 2007 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Ken Russell: sweet swell of excess . . . July 2007 .
• Williams . Linda Ruth . Speaking of soft core . . 47 . 2 . 129–135 . 10.1353/cj.2008.0013 . 30137707 . Winter 2008 .
• Williams . Linda R. . Mister Strangelove . . . March 2009 .
• Williams . Linda Ruth . The tears of Henry Thomas Screen . . 53 . 4 . 459–464 . 10.1093/screen/hjs051 . Winter 2012 .

External links

• • University of Exeter Biography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Williams, Linda Ruth . Library of Congress . 22 October 2015. data sheet (b. 04-16-1961) .
2. Web site: Professor Linda Ruth Williams. University of Exeter. en. 2017-12-17.
3. Web site: Professor Linda Ruth Williams. University of Southampton. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20170504111100/http://www.southampton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/lrw1.page. 4 May 2017. dead. 2017-07-16. dmy-all.
4. News: Mark . Lawson. Mark Lawson. Drawn to the devil . The Guardian. 9 April 2009. 10 January 2024 . London.