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Tami Williams

  • Associate Professor, English
  • Plan H Coordinator, English

Education

  • PhD, University of California-Los Angeles, Film and Television
  • MA, University of California-Los Angeles, Film and Television
  • BA, University of California-Santa Barbara, Film Studies

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 743-001 Film Theory and Criticism W 4pm-6:40pm

Research Interests

  • Archive Studies
  • Silent Cinema
  • Classical Film Theory
  • Global Women Directors
  • National Cinemas (Europe, Asia, Middle East)
  • Film and the Other Arts (music, dance, theater, painting)
  • Cinema and Digital Culture

Biographical Sketch

Tami Williams (Ph.D., UCLA) is an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, President of Domitor International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, and a board member of  Women Film History International. A 20th-century European, and French cinema specialist, she has a passion for silent film, archival studies, women directors, global cinema networks, and cinema’s relation to the other arts, as well as digital culture. She is a co-founder of Media Ecology Project-Domitor-Library of Congress (MEP-D-­LOC) paper prints pilot, SCMS Silent Cinema Cultures Scholarly Interest Group, and UWM Film Studies Archive Preservation Project, and a PI for the Center for 21st Century Studies, Teaching Media Archives Collaboratory, SURF - Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows and the UWM Media Studies Research Collaboratory.\n \n 

Selected Publications

. Early Cinema and the Archives 16.1.1 Ed. Williams, Tami M. University of Minnesota Press: The Moving Image. 2016.
Williams, Tami M. Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations Chicago and Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2014.
. Performing New Media, 1890-1915 Ed. Williams, Tami M., Askari, Kaveh, Curtis, Scott, and Gray, Frank . New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Press. 2014.
Williams, Tami M. “The 'Silent Arts': Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris” A Companion to Early Cinema Ed. Gaudreault, André, Dulac, Nicolas, and Hidalgo, Santiago. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (2012): 99-118.
Williams, Tami M. “Towards a New ‘Silent’ Cinema: 1920s French Impressionist Film and its Global Legacy” Global Currents: A bi-annual bulletin by the Center for International Education., Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 8.1 Ed. Petro, Patrice. (2011): p. 14-15.
Williams, Tami M. “Toward the Development of a Modern 'Impressionist' Cinema: Germaine Dulac's La Belle Dams sans merci (1921) and the Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale Archetype” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51.2 (2010): 404-419.

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