Faculty/Staff

• Professor, English
• Professor, Africana Studies
• Professor, Gender and Diversity Studies
• Professor, Honors Programs
• Professor, English Graduate Program

First Year at Xavier University:

1983

Degrees:

• B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Wayne State University)

Expertise:

20th-Century American literature, African-American literature, Literary theory

Biography:

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of three books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008) and The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009). A prose eulogy is forthcoming from Hooke Press in 2011. He has completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books. Further information about his work is available on his website.