She will spend the 2017-18 academic year at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina, working on her project Unmarried Misfits: Single Women and Twentieth-Century Black Culture. Dr. Williams is the author of Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction (University of Michigan Press, 2013). She is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta and holds a Ph.D. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.