Linda Ruth Williams

For the American film critic, see Linda Williams (United States film critic).

Linda R. Williams
Born	Linda Ruth Williams (1961-04-16) 16 April 1961 United Kingdom
Website	[[1] www.southampton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/lrw1.page%20Southampton%20University]]
Academic background
Alma mater	Sussex University
Thesis title	Misogynistic knowledge and the 'cocksure' woman: Freud, Nietzsche and feminism in the interpretation of D.H. Lawrence
Thesis url	https://www.worldcat.org/title/misogynistic-knowledge-and-the-cocksure-woman-freud-nietzsche-and-feminism-in-the-interpretation-of-dh-lawrence/oclc/59970533
Thesis year	1987
Academic work
Institutions	University of Southampton
Main interests	Film Studies, sexuality & censorship
Notable works	The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema
Notes
Spouse Mark Kermode

Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961) is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature (she has written widely on pornography, including a book on soft-core cinema), women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence.

Biography

Education

Williams went to school in Bristol, where she grew up, and followed her English degree at Sussex University with an MA in Critical Theory. She earned her PhD from Sussex on Lawrence, Nietzsche, Freud and Feminism.

Career

She has lectured at Liverpool, Manchester and Exeter Universities, and, since 1994, at Southampton University.

She has written several books including the influential Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, and is a regular contributor to the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine, and to radio programmes including Woman's Hour. Her 2006 book, Contemporary American Cinema was co-edited with fellow Southampton lecturer Dr Michael Hammond.

Personal life

She is married to the film critic Mark Kermode, and they have two children. She is co-curator of the annual Shetland Film Festival, Screenplay, run by Shetland Arts, and is a founding organiser of the New Forest Festival.

Publications

Books

• (With introduction by Williams.)

Book chapters

• (Also wrote numerous reference entries on British Poetry since 1830 for that text.)

Extracted as:

Journal articles

• Pdf.
• (Editors: Howard J. Booth, Elizabeth M. Fox and Fiona Becket.)
• (Interview with director Catherine Breillat.)

External links

• Linda Ruth Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• University of Southampton Biography