Linda Ruth Williams
| Linda Ruth Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 April 1961 United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Kermode |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Sussex University |
| Thesis title | Misogynistic knowledge and the 'cocksure' woman: Freud, Nietzsche and feminism in the interpretation of D.H. Lawrence |
| Thesis year | 1987 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Southampton |
| Main interests | Film Studies, sexuality & censorship |
| Notable works | The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema |
Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961) is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature (she has written widely on pornography, including a book on soft-core cinema), women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence.
Williams went to school in Bristol, where she grew up, and followed her English degree at Sussex University with an MA in Critical Theory. She earned her PhD from Sussex on Lawrence, Nietzsche, Freud and Feminism.
She has lectured at Liverpool, Manchester and Exeter Universities, and, since 1994, at Southampton University.
She has written several books including the influential Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, and is a regular contributor to the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine, and to radio programmes including Woman's Hour. Her 2006 book, Contemporary American Cinema was co-edited with fellow Southampton lecturer Dr Michael Hammond.
She is married to the film critic Mark Kermode, and they have two children. She is co-curator of the annual Shetland Film Festival, Screenplay, run by Shetland Arts, and is a founding organiser of the New Forest Festival.
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