Bethany Williams
Bethany's research takes the environmental humanities 'to the field' through critical/physical engagements with plants, ecologies, and agriculture. In her off-time Bethany plays with her pitbull and renovates Airstreams. Bethany is also the creator of 'Disparate Housewives,' a feminist zine.
PhD English Literature, UC Davis
BA English Literature, Willamette University 2012
Teaching:
English Department: ENL3A - Writer's Workshop (Fall 2020)
English Department: ENL3 - Literature and the Environment (Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020)
University Writing Program 1Y (Hybrid) - Academic Literacies (Spring 2019, Winter 2019)
University Writing Program 1 - Academic Literacies (Fall 2018)
University Writing Program 1 - Expository Writing (Summer Session II 2018)
University Writing Program 1 - Expository Writing (Spring 2018)
University Writing Program 1 - Expository Writing (Winter 2018)
University Writing Program 1 - Expository Writing (Fall 2017)
TA - English 122 - Milton (Margaret Ferguson) (Spring 2017)
TA - English 186 - Literature, Sexuality, and Gender (Elizabeth Freeman) (Winter 2016)
ENL186 - Guest lecture: 'Narration and gender in Absalom, Absalom!' (2016)
TA - English 110A - Introduction to Literary Criticism (Matthew Stratton) (Fall 2016)
2020 - Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency (ASLE) - "Embodied Ecocriticism: Action and Agriculture as Environmental Texts"
2019 - Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) - "Those Who Can’t Do, Teach? Reuniting Material and Semiotic By Way of FSTS"
2019 - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) - “It Matters in the Field: Grounding Speculative Agricultures in New Materialist Theory”
2017 - UC Davis Feminist Theory and Research Symposium - "Are We There Yet? Cruising Regiontology in a 1978 Airstream Ambassador Land Yacht"