David-Antoine Williams
Education
2003-2006 DPhil Balliol College, Oxford
2002-2003 MPhil The University of St Andrews
1996-2000 AB Harvard University
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Academic Appointments
2023- Professor, St Jerome’s University, the University of Waterloo 2015-2023 Associate Professor, St Jerome’s University, the University of Waterloo 2010-2015 Assistant Professor, St Jerome’s University, the University of Waterloo 2007-2010 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, English Faculty, Oxford 2007-2010 Junior Research Fellow in English, Hertford College, Oxford
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Publications
Monographs The Life of Words : Etymology and Modern Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. [link] Defending Poetry : Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. [link] Chapters in Books ‘Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative Profile’ in Poetry and the Dictionary, edited by Andrew Blades and Piers Pennington. Liverpool University Press, 2020: 57-80. [link] Articles ‘Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary’ in Notes and Queries (2023) Advance Access. [link] [pdf] ‘Women’s Words and the Words of Women in the Oxford English Dictionary’ in Review of English Studies 74.316 (2023), 730-751. [link] [pdf] - ‘Women’s Words and the Words of Women in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1700–2022, Supplementary Data & Notes’ (2023) 74pp. [link] [pdf] ‘ “Alien” vs. Editor: World English in the Oxford English Dictionary; Policies, Practices, and Outcomes 1884–2020’ in International Journal of Lexicography 34.1 (2021) 39-65. [link] ‘Getting More out of the Oxford English Dictionary (by Putting More In)’ in Dictionaries 38.2 (2017): 106-113. [link] [pdf] ‘The “Oxford Dictionary” in T. S. Eliot’ in Notes & Queries 63.2 (2016): 293-296. [link] [pdf] ‘T. S. Eliot in The Oxford English Dictionary’ in Notes & Queries 63.2 (2016): 296-301. [link] [pdf] ‘Interview with Paul Muldoon’ The Life of Words (web blog) 2015. [pdf] ‘All corruptible things: Geoffrey Hill's Etymological Crux’ in Modern Philology 112.3 (Feb, 2015): 522-553 [link] [pdf]. ‘Method as Tautology in the Digital Humanities’ in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (formerly Literary and Linguistic Computing) 30.2 (2015): 280-293. [link] [pdf] ‘Poetic Antagonyms’ in The Comparatist 37 (May, 2013): 169-85. [link] [pdf] ‘Tête-à-tête, Face-à-face : Brodsky, Levinas, and the Ethics of Poetry’ in Poetics Today 30.2 (2009): 207-35. [link] [pdf] Reviews ‘Living Powers’, a review of Denise Gigante, Life: Organic Form and Romanticism, in Essays in Criticism 60.4 (2010): 368-74. [link] A review of C. I. Armstrong, Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space and the Past, in Modern Language Review 105.3 (2010): 849-50. [link] A review of Robert Von Hallberg, Lyric Powers, in The Times Higher Education (1-7.i.2009): 53. [link] ‘Low Risk’, a review of Eleanor Cook, A Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens, in Essays in Criticism 58.3 (2008): 369-75. [link] ‘Book of the Week’, a review of Geoffrey Hill, Collected Critical Writings, in The Times Higher Education (20.iii.2008): 44-5. [link] Editions Williams, David-Antoine, ed. Oxford Poetry Broadsides. Anne Carson, Wendy Cope, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, et al.. Oxford: Oxford Poetry, 2005-2007. .
Grants & Funding
2022-27 SSHRC Insight Grant - ‘Opening the Oxford English Dictionary: A data-enhanced, research-ready historical dictionary’ - $265,720
Ontario Ministry of Innovation, University of Waterloo, St Jerome's University
2015-20 Ontario Early Researcher Award - ‘The Life of Words’ - $190,000
Ontario Ministry of Innovation, University of Waterloo, St Jerome's University
2017-18 Faculty Research Grant - ‘OED3 Research’ - $7,500
St Jerome’s University
2013-14 Faculty Research Grant - ‘Poetry-Philology-Lexicography’ - $1,250
St Jerome’s University
2012-13 Faculty Research Grant - ‘Data-Mining the OED’ - $5,000
St Jerome’s University
2011-13 Insight Development Grant - ‘Poetry & Contingency’ - $17,049
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2011-12 UW-SIG Seed Grant - ‘Applying search & stylometry techniques to OED2 & poetic text corpora’ - $5,437
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and The University of Waterloo
2011-12 Faculty Research Grant - ‘The Poet & the Dictionary’ - $6,000
St Jerome’s University
2007-10 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - £215,179
The British Academy
2007-10 Junior Research Fellowship in English
Hertford College, Oxford
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Teaching
St Jerome's University 2010- ENGL100B: Introduction to Poetry ENGL200B: Survey of British Literature 2, 1780 to the Present ENGL251A: Criticism I ENGL260: Irish Literature and the ‘Troubles’ ENGL365: Directed Reading: Gerard Manley Hopkins ENGL365: Directed Reading: Gender and Sexuality in Irish Literature ENGL460D: Contemporary British Literature ENGL460C: British Literature, 1945 to the Present ENGL487: Recent British and Commonwealth Poetry and Poetics University of Waterloo 2010- ENGL785: The Poetics of Etymology ENGL735: Three Voices in Recent U.K. Poetry: Muldoon, Jamie, Paterson. ENGL735: Seamus Heaney ENGL785: What Good is Poetry? ENGL705: Directed Reading: The Poets on Poetry ENGL705: Directed Reading: Modern British Poetry Oxford University 2004-2010 Mods Paper 1: Introduction to Literary Studies (Hertford College) Mods Paper 4: Seamus Heaney (Lady Margaret Hall, Trinity College, Pembroke College, Hertford College) FHS Paper 7: Emily Dickinson (Hertford College) FHS Paper 8: Modern Poetry and Translation (Hertford College) Lectures: Reading Poetry (English Faculty) Visiting Student Special Paper: T. S. Eliot Visiting Student Special Paper: 20th C. British & Irish Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Heaney, Hill Visiting Student Special Paper: Transatlantic Poetry: Eliot, Auden, Muldoon