Kelly Williams

Director, Research and Scholarly Writing

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Kelly Williams is director of research and scholarly writing in the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. Her primary areas of responsibility are support for faculty as writers and researchers, including the Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund, the CFDE Faculty Writing Groups, aculty writing retreats, and public scholarship programming and support.

Kelly is an accomplished scholar whose work spans Shakespeare, pre-modern race studies, and the history of science. She earned her PhD from Emory University, where she specialized in Renaissance literature, and she previously served as a Dean’s Teaching Fellow in CFDE. Kelly joins us at this time from the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech, where she was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and taught composition courses and digital media through the lens of STEM history. At Georgia Tech, she supported faculty writing as a professional consultant in the Naugle Writing and Communication Center. Her latest research has explored XR pedagogies and the impact of emerging technologies on multimodal communication and student engagement.