James Williams' research interests include francophone postcolonial studies, particularly West and Central African cinema; post-war French and European film; modern and contemporary French literature; gender and sexuality; migration and diasporic cultures; Holocaust cinema; the archives.
Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
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