Kelly D. Williams, PhD

Welcome

Thanks for visiting my site. I am a Brittain postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology where I teach composition and multimodal communication through the thematic lens of Renaissance science and technology. I also support Georgia Tech writers, from undergraduates to faculty, in my role as a professional consultant at The Naugle Writing and Communication Center.

Before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, I received my PhD in English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. At Emory, I taught composition and literature courses in the Department of English. I hold an MA in Irish Literature and Culture from Boston College and have also worked as a 4th grade teacher/TFA Corps Member and K-6 math instructional coach at Miami-Dade County Public Schools (my hometown).

Throughout my career in higher education, I have been committed to faculty development and support. At Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence, I worked as an Academic Technology Consultant, providing Canvas and LMS support to educators across campus. At Emory, I continued this work at the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE). At the CFDE, I served as Assistant Editor of Thoughtwork, a weekly electronic bulletin of emerging knowledge and news in Emory’s intellectual community. In 2023 I received the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship at CFDE. In this role, I worked with the Director of Teaching and Learning to create and facilitate workshops, fellowships, and collaborative programming to support faculty pedagogical initiatives.

In my spare time, I enjoy gardening, hiking with my family, camping, playing with my four-legged friends, and reading novels by Louise Edrich and Madeline Miller.