Biography

B.A. Wheaton College; M.A., Ph.D. New York University

Until 2010, Deborah Lindsay Williams was Director of Honors and Professor of English at Iona College. She now teaches in the NYU Liberal Studies Program. Her fields of interest include 20th Century US Fiction, Children's Literature, and Feminist Literary History and Historiography. She is the author of a number of articles about U.S. women writers and Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. With Cyrus R.K. Patell, she is the co-editor of Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume Eight, 1940-Present.