Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Modern Languages at St Edmund Hall
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Wes Williams is Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Modern Languages at St Edmund Hall. His books include Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: ‘The Undiscovered Country’ (OUP, 1999), and Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture; Mighty Magic (OUP, 2012). Currently working on a study of the long, enduring history of ‘voluntary servitude’, he also writes and directs for the theatre.
A former Director of TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), he has a long-standing interest in fostering cultural collaborations that amplify, diversify, and transform our collective intellectual and social resources.
