Biography
Education
- PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025
- MA in English and American Literature, University of Texas at El Paso, 2019
- BA in Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, 2013
Interests and Specializations
Media Studies, American Studies, Border Studies, Carceral Studies, English Education, and Pedagogy
About
Benjamin Williams is an interdisciplinary scholar of 20th and 21st-century media, literature, and culture of the Americas. Williams is currently completing a book on the media infrastructures of the United States-Mexico border and their relationship to the carceral system. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Critique, Hispanic Review, and ASAP/Journal. He also serves as co-editor of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. As a publicly engaged scholar, he regularly interviews scholars from a range of disciplines for re:verb, a podcast about politics, culture, and language in action. Before beginning his career in higher education, he worked as a high school English department chair in his hometown of El Paso, Texas and taught there for nearly a decade.