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Personal profile
Research interests
Terrion Williamson is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies with appointments in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and American Studies. Her research and teaching specializations include black feminist theory, twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature, black cultural studies, media studies, and racialized gender violence. Her first book, Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life, uses her experiences growing up in the small midwestern city of Peoria, Illinois as the staging ground for a study of how poor and working-class black women upend foregoing notions of black female representation and consequently circumvent the constraints of stereotype discourse in the making of alternative black communal formations and kinship networks. Her current book project, which builds upon work started in the last chapter of Scandalize My Name, is a victim-centered study of the more than 60 cases throughout the U.S. in which black women have been the sole or primary targets of serial killers since the 1970s.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Southern California
Award Date: Aug 1 2011
MA, University of Southern California
Award Date: Aug 1 2008
Juris Doctor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Date: May 31 2005
BA, University of Illinois at Chicago
Award Date: May 1 2002
Research interests
- Gender Violence
- African American Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Black Feminist Theory
- Black Studies
- Media Studies
- Race and the Law
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Research Output
Why did they die? On Combahee and the serialization of black death
Williamson, T. L., Jul 3 2017, In : Souls. 19, 3, p. 328-341 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Bla(n)ckness and the illogics of black teenage motherhood
Williamson, T. L., Sep 1 2016, In : New Centennial Review. 16, 2, p. 97-122 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Williamson, T. L., Oct 2016, Fordham University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder
Williamson, T. L., Mar 2015, In : Social Text. 33, 1, p. 95-114Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Christian Morality
Williamson, T. L., 2014, Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions. Palgrave McMillan, p. 203-16Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Activities
- 2 Invited presentation
Black Women and Serial Murder
Terrion L Williamson (Speaker)Mar 13 2016
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder
Terrion L Williamson (Speaker)Apr 24 2014
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
Fellowships, Honors, and Prizes
American Summer Research Publication Grant
Terrion L Williamson (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
Terrion L Williamson (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Terrion L Williamson (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Terrion L Williamson (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively