Harriet Williams

Associate Professor

williams@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1986

Specialization Areas

• Composition and Rhetoric
• Young Adult Literature
• Teaching Writing

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 432 ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
• ENGL 461 TEACHING OF WRITING

Current Research Project(s)

Publications

'Entry on Richard Russo's Empire Falls." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, 17. Ed. Scot Peacock. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002.

'Entry on Dennis Lehane's Mystic River." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, 16. Ed. Mark Scott. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002: 251-258.

'Entry on Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson"." Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, 14. Ed. Lisa Kumar. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Gpoup, 2001:241-248.

'Reading and Writing: My Textual Companions," Carolina English Teacher: The Journal of the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (2001): 40-42.

'Entry on John Updike's Rabbit is Rich." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, 14. Ed. Mark Scott. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2001: 337-346.

'Entry on John Updike's Rabbit, Run." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, 14. Ed. Mark Scott. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2001: 347-356.

'Teaching Grammar in Contect: One Approach," The Quarterly: The Professional Journal of the National Writing Projkect, 20 (Winter 1999): 23-24.

'Entry on Peg Kehret's I'm Not Who You think I Am." Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, 12. Ed. Kristen Dorsch. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000: 227-236.

Young Reader's Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Columbia, SC: South Carolina State Department of Education and South Carolina Educational Television, 1996.

Published as part of the University of South Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary and distributed by SCETV to each high school in South Carolina and to each of the other state departments of education in teh United States.