Louise B. Williams

Associate Professor of History
Assistant Chair, Department of History

Department of History
208 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Phone: (860) 832-2806
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: williamsl@ccsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: England, Ireland, Imperialism, intellectual history

Louise Blakeney Williams received her B.A. in Philosophy, with Distinction, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1979. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1982 and 1992 respectively. Dr. Williams joined the faculty of CCSU in 1997. Prior to her arrival, she taught at New York University and Lehman College, City University of New York.

Dr. Williams’ teaching interests include the British Empire, intellectual history, English history, and Irish history. At present, she is completing a second book manuscript, tentatively entitled, ‘Meeting Our Own Image’: Nationalism, Gender, and the Cosmopolitan Culture of Art in the British Empire, 1890-1920. She also has under review several articles on cosmopolitanism, modernism, and national identities in the British Empire. At CCSU, she has served as interim department chair (2003-2004) and as assistant chair (1999-2003, 2007- ).

Selected publications:

• Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• “Overcoming the ‘Contagion of Mimicry’: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and The Modernist History of Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats,” American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (February 2007): 69-100.
• "British Modernism, History, and Totalitarianism: The Case of T.E. Hulme," CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History Vol. 23, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 257-269.