Benjamin Williams

Ph.D. Student

Area of Study

PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

My research focuses on 19th and 20th-century literature, visual culture, and law in the US-Mexico borderlands with attention to conceptions of race, nation, and gender. I am primarily interested in exploring how diasporic cultural productions push against regimes of representation that contribute to violent juridical knowledge-making processes.

Research Keywords: Borders, Mobility, Migration, Visual Culture, Law

Education

• BA in Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso
• MA in English and American Literature, University of Texas at El Paso