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Deborah Williams

Deborah Williams
Deborah Williams teaches at New York University. Her scholarly work includes Not in Sisterhood and The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction; and being co-editor of Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume Eight: US Fiction Since 1940. Various essays of hers have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Common, and The Markaz Review, among others. She is currently at work on a novel about Edith Wharton's menopausal reinvention.


The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

Finding Hope in the Stories of Zona Gale
July 14, 2025  By Deborah Williams
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Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

Deborah Williams on Undine Spragg, Miranda July, and “Women of a Certain Age”
January 24, 2025  By Deborah Williams
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