Dr. Tyrone Williams

English Professor
English Graduate Program Professor
Gender and Diversity Studies Professor
Honors Programs Professor

Phone: 513-745-2014 Fax: 513-745-3065 ML#: 4446 Email: williamt@xavier.edu Office Location: 208 Hinkle Hall     Degrees: Ph.D. (Wayne State University) First Year at XU: 1983

Areas of Expertise:
20th-Century American Literature, African-American Literature

Other Information:

Tyrone Williams teaches literature, literary theory and creative writing. He has a chapbook, Convalescence, from Ridgeway Press (1987; 2nd ed. 1989; 3rd ed. 1994). In addition, he has published poetry in Hambone, Callaloo, The Denver Quarterly, River Styx, The Kenyon Review, Artful Dodge, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The World, Dispatch, Long News, and other national magazines. His manuscript, "The Adventures of Pi," was a finalist in the 1992 National Poetry Series. In 1993 his poems were the Grand Prize Winner of the Philosopher's Stone Poetry Competition. In 1996, his manuscript, "Figure: Chalk on Asphalt," was a finalist in the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. He was a participant in the 1999 Djerassi Resident Artist Program near Santa Cruz, CA, and the outside reader for Susan Howe, who judged the Academy of American Poet's 2000 Walt Whitman Poetry Award. In 2002, he published a volume of poetry, c.c., through Krupskaya Books. In 2004 Williams published two more collections of poetry, Futures, Elections (Dos Madres, 2004) and AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004). Williams is currently circulating his manuscript on hip-hop culture, "Hip-Hop And The Public," working on a book on intellectual property and the arts, "Quotation And Modern Art," and completing another book of poetry for the avant-garde publisher Atelos Books.