Rachel Williams

Temporary Assistant Professor of English

Degrees

M.A., English, University of Georgia, 1998
A.B., English, Univeristy of Georgia, 1996

Interests

Composition & Rhetoric; media literacy/analysis; popular culture analysis in the classroom; country music.

Publications

"The Imaginary South of Country-Western Music," Postscript, Spring 2007

Selected Conference Presentations

"The Coal Miner's Daughter Don't Live Here No More: Souther Working-Class Women in Film." Annual Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, University of North Carolina-Asheville, March 2008.

"The Imaginary South of Country-Western Music." 32nd Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University, October 2005.

Current Projects

In Front of God and Everybody (novel)

Developing "The Imaginary South of Country-Western Music" into a book length work

Online delivery of ITDS 1145, "Country Music & Southern Culture: Beyond Drinkin', Fightin', and Cheatin'"-going live Maymester 2009

Awards/ Honors

Nominated for CSU College of Arts & Letters Part-Time Teaching Excellent Award- January 2009

Professional Activity

Hospitality Coordinator, Chattahoochee Valley Writers' Conference- January 2008-present
Judge for Columbus Museum's Youth Poetry SLAM- March 2008-present
Active member, National Council of Teachers of English- February 2006-present