William Scott
- Associate Professor
William Scott’s research and teaching focus on American and African American Literature, poetry/poetics, humanism, classics, music, and linguistics (generative syntax; universal grammar).
Representative Publications
His first book, Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2012. His most recent book, a study of various forms of syntax and articulation in the poetic work of Evie Shockley, entitled Braided Language: Syntax and the Poetry of Evie Shockley, is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press as a volume in the “Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics.”
He is currently working on a study of the fiction of John Cheever, entitled “Decorum: John Cheever and the Moral Imagination.”
Research Interests
American and African American Literature, poetry/poetics, humanism, classics, music, and linguistics (generative syntax; universal grammar).
