Pamela Lagergren Williams, PhD

Pamela Lagergren Williams has taught Research and Writing in the Discipline courses, as well as various other English courses, such as Literary Genres, Women Writers, World Literature, and Critical Reading and Response, for Bay Path University since 2012 in both traditional and accelerated Saturday classes. Also, at Bay Path, she has served as a faculty lead, paid consultant for the Bay Path TAWC Liberal Studies Curriculum Mapping project, and worked on a rubrics design committee. She is currently completing a Masters Certificate in Online Teaching from Bay Path University.

Williams is the Assistant Director of Developmental Education at American International College where she teaches numerous foundational writing courses for incoming students and occasionally teaches a service learning course sponsored by Scholar Athletes of Boston. She also serves as a writing tutor at AIC when her schedule allows.

Williams earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, leading discussions and teaching numerous English courses: Society and Literature; Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture; American Experience; Studies in Modern Fiction; Shakespeare; Representing the Holocaust; American Identities; and Reading Poetry.

Williams has presented “The Value of Artistic Productions in Keeping Cultural Memory Alive”; “Who Owns the Human in a Global Community?: Literary Representations of the Disenfranchised within the Prison Camps of the Reservation (Spanish-America Encomienda) Indian, the Plantation Slave, the Holocaust Camp Inmate and Others”; “The Four Principles of Designing a Solid Teaching Environment: Learner-Centered, Knowledge-Centered, Assessment-Centered, Community Centered Environments and the Importance of Aligning All Four”; and “How to Sell Student Persistence Teaching Service Learning.”

Williams’s dissertation is called A Multidirectional Memory Approach to Representations of Colonization, Racism, and Genocide in Literature, and can be accessed online through Scholar Works.

Abstract:

Directed by: Professor James E. Young This dissertation explores where historical memories concerning colonization, genocide, and racism intersect, merge, and overlap in multidirectional ways. The text opens by exploring the possibilities of using a multidirectional model of world history and then moves to a discussion of certain aspects of world political history that interrogates why some nations have dominated others. The focus then shifts to England's attitude toward perceived "others" in the crucial late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by examining contemporary theater drama. From there, the text moves on to current voices that have spoken out against the racism and genocide that have emerged as byproducts of empire building. Finally, possibilities for where we, as citizens of the world, can go from here in thinking through framing justice and equality for all its occupants is given the final voice in this text. My approach may be thought of as somewhat philosophical.

Williams lives in Springfield, Massachusetts with her husband, Raymond.