Katherine Williams received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate School, with specialties in 19th-century Romantic and Victorian British literature. She received a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Denver. Before joining New York Tech, Williams worked in human resource consulting firms as business and technical writer. She has served as Manhattan campus English Department Chair since 1993 and, at various times, on New York Institute of Technology's Academic Senate and on the Executive, Admissions and Academic Standards, and Communication committees. She was a member of the AAUP Joint Council from 2000–2012. She currently chairs the College of Arts and Sciences School Personnel Committee.
Williams' scholarly and research interests include early modern and romantic literature, and the intersections among literature and the cultures of science, technology, and built environments. Recent projects have focused on the phenomenology of "aural space" and windows in early modern fiction, and on the prison window as "psychic space" in the history of prison architecture, penology, and prison literature.
Publications
- "Permeability, Sound, and Space in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Fenetre: ouvertures et perspectives / Window: Openings and perspectives." Conference Proceedings, ed. Karolina Katsika, CRIT Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles, Universite de France-Compte (2017)
- 112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Goedel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science, by Burton Feldman. Edited and Completed by Katherine Williams, New York: Arcade Press, 2007.
- "Glass Windows: The View from Bleak House," Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 33, 2003.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- The City in World Literature
- The Literature of Work
- Romantic Literature and Sciences
- Communication for Technical Professions
- Communication for Art and Design
- WRIT 100 and 110