Dr Rhys Williams
- Senior Lecturer (English Literature)
Publications
2022
Williams, R. (2022) Habit. In: Szeman, I. and Wenzel, J. (eds.) Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. West Virginia University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2022) Energy humanities. In: Bould, M., Butler, A. M., Roberts, A. and Vint, S. (eds.) New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)
After Oil Collective, , Vemuri, A. and Barney, D. (Eds.) (2022) Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis ; London. ISBN 9781517914141
2021
Williams, R. (2021) Solar as narrative element: the interrupting surface. In: Howe, C., Diamanti, J. and Moore, A. (eds.) Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions. Punctum Books. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2021) Turning toward the Sun: the solarity and singularity of New Food. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(1), pp. 151-162. (doi: 10.1215/00382876-8795791)
2020
Williams, R. (2020) Contemporary utopianism: an island renaissance. In: Shrank, C. and Withington, P. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
2019
Williams, R. (2019) 'This Shining Confluence of Magic and Technology': solarpunk, energy imaginaries, and the infrastructures of solarity. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 60. (doi: 10.16995/olh.329)
Williams, R. (2019) Inventing new worlds: The age of manifestos and utopias. In: Canavan, G. and Link, E. C. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 69-85. ISBN 9781107166097 (doi: 10.1017/9781316694374)
2017
Williams, R. (2017) Utopia for the fragmented. In: Chignac, L. (ed.) The Art Night Book. ICA: London.
2016
Williams, R. (2016) Utopian curatorial praxis: on Slow Action by Ben Rivers. Science Fiction Film and Television, 9(1), pp. 118-121. (doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2016.4)
Williams, R. (2016) There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics. In: Duschinsky, R., Schnall, S. and Weiss, D. H. (eds.) Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9781138693708
Williams, R. (2016) Utopia’s the thing: an analysis of utopian programme and impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. In: Godfrey, E. (ed.) Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 107-121. ISBN 9781137523396 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-52340-2_7)
Williams, R. (2016) Weird counsels: the critic and the critics. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 124, pp. 92-98. [Book Review]
2014
Williams, R. (2014) Recognizing cognition: on Suvin, Miéville, and the utopian impulse in the contemporary fantastic. Science Fiction Studies, 41(3), pp. 617-633. (doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0617)
Bould, M. and Williams, R. (2014) Sf Now [Guest editors]. Paradoxa, 26,
Williams, R. (2014) Cognitive impurities: a combined political approach to the fantastic (with The Island of Doctor Moreau). Paradoxa, 26, pp. 253-266.
Articles
Williams, R. (2021) Turning toward the Sun: the solarity and singularity of New Food. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(1), pp. 151-162. (doi: 10.1215/00382876-8795791)
Williams, R. (2019) 'This Shining Confluence of Magic and Technology': solarpunk, energy imaginaries, and the infrastructures of solarity. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 60. (doi: 10.16995/olh.329)
Williams, R. (2016) Utopian curatorial praxis: on Slow Action by Ben Rivers. Science Fiction Film and Television, 9(1), pp. 118-121. (doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2016.4)
Williams, R. (2014) Recognizing cognition: on Suvin, Miéville, and the utopian impulse in the contemporary fantastic. Science Fiction Studies, 41(3), pp. 617-633. (doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0617)
Bould, M. and Williams, R. (2014) Sf Now [Guest editors]. Paradoxa, 26,
Williams, R. (2014) Cognitive impurities: a combined political approach to the fantastic (with The Island of Doctor Moreau). Paradoxa, 26, pp. 253-266.
Book Sections
Williams, R. (2022) Habit. In: Szeman, I. and Wenzel, J. (eds.) Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. West Virginia University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2022) Energy humanities. In: Bould, M., Butler, A. M., Roberts, A. and Vint, S. (eds.) New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2021) Solar as narrative element: the interrupting surface. In: Howe, C., Diamanti, J. and Moore, A. (eds.) Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions. Punctum Books. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2020) Contemporary utopianism: an island renaissance. In: Shrank, C. and Withington, P. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
Williams, R. (2019) Inventing new worlds: The age of manifestos and utopias. In: Canavan, G. and Link, E. C. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 69-85. ISBN 9781107166097 (doi: 10.1017/9781316694374)
Williams, R. (2017) Utopia for the fragmented. In: Chignac, L. (ed.) The Art Night Book. ICA: London.
Williams, R. (2016) There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics. In: Duschinsky, R., Schnall, S. and Weiss, D. H. (eds.) Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9781138693708
Williams, R. (2016) Utopia’s the thing: an analysis of utopian programme and impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. In: Godfrey, E. (ed.) Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 107-121. ISBN 9781137523396 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-52340-2_7)
Book Reviews
Williams, R. (2016) Weird counsels: the critic and the critics. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 124, pp. 92-98. [Book Review]
Edited Books
After Oil Collective, , Vemuri, A. and Barney, D. (Eds.) (2022) Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis ; London. ISBN 9781517914141
Supervision
- Hall, Emma
Assessing arts-based interventions for sustainable practice - Hamilton, Sarah-Jane
Ecopedagogy for accelerating a city-wide just energy transition in Glasgow - Taylor, William
'Base Materialism and Semiotic Violence in Posthuman Bio- and Eco-horror