Montana State University

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Montana State University
P.O. Box 172980
Bozeman, MT 59717-2980

Tel: (406) 994-4448
Fax: (406) 994-6199
Location: 117 Gaines Hall

Interim Department Chair

Dr. Jack Jelinski

Phil Williams,
Visiting Associate Teaching Professor of Japan Studies

Phil Williams

Office: Gaines 118
Phone: 994-5136
Email: philip.williams@montana.edu
Office hours: Monday 10-11am & Wednesday 1-2pm, & by appointment

 

Fall 2012 Classes:

JPNS 320 - Elementary Japanese I, MTRF 11:00-11:50 a.m.

 

Spring 2013 Classes:

CLS 101US-4 - Knowledge and Community, MWF 11:00-11:50 a.m.

ML 491-801 Sp-Asian Cilvilizations, online course through Extended University

 

Research Interests

Monsoon Asia, especially East Asia
Cultural history
Human rights and prisoners of conscience

Education

Ph.D.  University of California, Los Angeles, 1985

Select Publications

PW book

Asian Literary Voices, edited by Philip F. Williams. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

Remolding and Resistance among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp: Disciplined and Published. Ed. Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. London: Routledge,  2006.

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. By Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. Berkeley: University of  California Press, 2004.