Linda Ruth Williams

Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961) 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. 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 the University of Sussex 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. She is currently Professor of Film at the University of Exeter. 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

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Book chapters (Also wrote numerous reference entries on British Poetry since 1830 for that text.)

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Journal articles Pdf.

(Editors: Howard J. Booth, Elizabeth M. Fox and Fiona Becket.) (Interview with director Catherine Breillat.)