I’m a Professor of English and Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville where I write and teach about issues of literacy, identity, sustainability, digital media, popular culture, and community writing. My recurring research interests have been to explore how people engage in and experience writing and reading through their daily lives and in the literacy practices they encounter in schools and universities.
I am the co-creator of a collaborative, global climate change education and writing project called Ripple Effects International. Ripple Effects International is a cross-cultural initiative that uses photography and writing about water with the goals of helping people focus on and learn more about the natural world, understand the global and local effects of climate change, and connect to and develop empathy with others. You can find more about the project and how to take part here. I’m particularly interested in exploring how we can use narrative, art, digital media, and other approaches to multimodal writing and communication to find new ways to connect narrative/identity/history/memory into explorations of sustainability and climate change and place.I am working on a book project about how such multimodal approaches to writing and reading offer particularly effective and nuanced approaches to creating meaning and communicating ideas across cultures in a world-wide culture of climate change.
My other recent interests are in how the disruptions of our times, such as the pandemic or climate change or political upheavals, affect students’ experiences and relationships with writing, place, technology, teachers, time, and school itself. My most recent book, Literacies in Times of Disruption: Living and Learning During a Pandemic (Routledge Press) shows the impact on students’ of affective and embodied experiences of this disruption and uncertainty, and the memories and narratives constructed from those experiences.
Bronwyn T. Williams
Professor of English and Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
502-852-2186
bronwyn.williams@louisville.edu
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9928-8959
https://profiles.louisville.edu/bronwyn.williams
Bronwyn T. Williams 