Jessica Horvath Williams: President's Postdoctoral Fellow

Jessica Horvath Williams (she/her/hers) is a 2020–21 President's Postdoctoral Fellow.

Department
English

President's Postdoctoral Fellow Program Mentors
Jinga Desai and Douglas Kearney

Undergraduate Institution
University of Oklahoma

Doctoral Institution
University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation Title
A Monster of Virtues: Female Ideality, (Dis)ability, and Nineteenth-Century Womanhood

Research Interests
Nineteenth-century U.S. literature, history, and culture; critical disability studies; feminist of color disability studies; women's literature; whiteness and the rise of ableism