Kristi Williams

Instructor in English

department: English, Exploration and Discovery
office: 206M Albany Quadrangle
mailstop: 129
phone: 503-768-7193
e-mail: kristiw@lclark.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., English, Brown University, with a concentration in Victorian literature
• M.A., English, Brown University
• B.A., English, Grinnell College

Teaching:

I have taught a broad range of courses at a variety of colleges, including four years at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Over the years, my scholarly interests have become focused on the role gender, race, and class play in forming identity and determining destinies, and I have become increasingly intrigued by the relevance of William Blake’s phrase, “mind-forg’d manacles,” to these matters. I also have a strong appreciation of and interest in American Indian writing and the alternate paradigms it presents.

Life Experience:

After my graduate work, I taught at Tulane University in New Orleans, where I met my husband, Ben Edwards. We moved to California and then to the Philippines where he had been raised and where he attended veterinary school and I taught and where (perhaps most importantly!) our son (now 26) was born. Since Ben is a veterinarian, we have a motley assortment of dogs and cats, as one friends says, all “damaged” in one way or another, but all well loved. We have lived in the Portland area for the past 24 years, adapting to the Northwest weather so thoroughly that we feel deprived if we go too many days without rain. Last summer we bought a canoe and are looking forward to discovering some of the hidden lakes of Oregon this summer.