Sebastian Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davis & Elkins College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9965-1908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Lexicons of Cult Film
In this paper, we explore how The Big Lebowski provides “equipment for living,” to explain the Lebowski phenomenon and answer the question: How do individuals use The Big Lebowski to communicate across cultures? In answer to this question, we argue that the shared lexicon of the cult film serves as a diagnostic tool, which fans use to identify each other, size up their situation, and determine a course of action. In one sense, the film is both a …
Public Health, Visual Rhetoric, and Latin America
Rogue Bodies
Anthropocentric Ableism and Virginia Woolf's Flush
Virginia Woolf’s Flush creatively imagines nonhuman experience, which in turn exposes and subverts an underlying anthropocentric ableism—particularly the ways speciesism and ableism are intimately connected. Exploring invalidism, eugenics, and canine perception, Woolf’s novel challenges the very meaning of a “normal” body, language, and literature
The Gothic Grotesque
Faulkner is often associated with the Southern Gothic, a genre that features Freudian repression, horror, and the grotesque. The article considers the relationship between disability and the Gothic
Silence and Mediation
This essay considers the role of narrative silence in postcolonial literature, particularly the literary techniques of Bapsi Sidhwa in Cracking India. Engaging with historiographical debates on how we represent marginalized groups, this article argues that Sidhwa’s careful narrative structure impels readers to engage with subaltern figures to better understand the violence women experienced during the Partition. While some scholars have criticize…
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The Gothic Grotesque
Faulkner is often associated with the Southern Gothic, a genre that features Freudian repression, horror, and the grotesque. The article considers the relationship between disability and the Gothic
Silence and Mediation
This essay considers the role of narrative silence in postcolonial literature, particularly the literary techniques of Bapsi Sidhwa in Cracking India. Engaging with historiographical debates on how we represent marginalized groups, this article argues that Sidhwa’s careful narrative structure impels readers to engage with subaltern figures to better understand the violence women experienced during the Partition. While some scholars have criticize…
Rogue Bodies
Anthropocentric Ableism and Virginia Woolf's Flush
Virginia Woolf’s Flush creatively imagines nonhuman experience, which in turn exposes and subverts an underlying anthropocentric ableism—particularly the ways speciesism and ableism are intimately connected. Exploring invalidism, eugenics, and canine perception, Woolf’s novel challenges the very meaning of a “normal” body, language, and literature
Public Health, Visual Rhetoric, and Latin America
The Lexicons of Cult Film
In this paper, we explore how The Big Lebowski provides “equipment for living,” to explain the Lebowski phenomenon and answer the question: How do individuals use The Big Lebowski to communicate across cultures? In answer to this question, we argue that the shared lexicon of the cult film serves as a diagnostic tool, which fans use to identify each other, size up their situation, and determine a course of action. In one sense, the film is both a …
Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)