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Stuart Mcwilliams

Senior Lecturer - English Language Literature

Email stuart.mcwilliams@ilos.uio.no

Phone +47 22 85 67 13

Room 709

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Niels Treschows hus 0316 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1003 Blindern 0316 Oslo

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Academic interests

British literature
British cultural history
Irish literature
Literary and cultural theory
Periodisation
Medieval Studies and medievalism
Historicity / historical time
Literature and the supernatural
Magic and occultism
Theory and philosophy of history
Literature, science and religion

Doctoral supervision

Courses taught

ENG4428: Encountering the Supernatural in English Literature
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG4428
ENG4301: Literary Theory in English
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG4301/
ENG2302: Early Twentieth-Century Literature in English
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG2302/
ENG2305: The Victorian Period
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG2305/
ENG1303: British Literature
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG1303/

Tags: English literature, English, British Literature, British Studies, American Studies, Irish Literature, Irish Studies, Aesthetics, Literature, Literary Theory

Mcwilliams, Stuart (2026). Lifetimes of the Secular: A Thanatography. In Tonning, Erik & Tonning, Fionnuala O’Neill (Ed.), Inventing the Secular. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004737853. p. 339–354. doi: https:/brill.com/edcollbook/title/72756?language=en&srsltid=AU7gw4WancYSST6B-MSA2f6EHvT52R5qXHlkMMizg5Nx3ZwihLafjXua. Full text in Research Archive
Mcwilliams, Stuart (2025). 'The baffling things that are left over': A Note on the Untimely in the Early Reception of The Turn of the Screw. In Guanio-Uluru, Lykke & Davis, Colin (Ed.), Narrative Ethics: Negotiating Values: Essays in honour of Jakob Lothe. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283901641. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2021). Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives, and the Commune of Saints. In Matthews, David & Sanders, Michael (Ed.), Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Boydell & Brewer. ISSN 9781843845782. p. 160–174. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2019). Delay: An Interlude, An Abeyance, A Ghost Story. In Alho, Tommi; Finch, Jason & Sell, Roger D. (Ed.), Renaissance Man: Essays on Literature and Culture for Anthony W. Johnson. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027204257. p. 243–247. doi: 10.1075/fillm.11.11mcw. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2018). Move Fast and Break Frames: The Question Concerning Luddism. In Lambrecht, Bram & Somers, Matthias (Ed.), Writing Literary History, 1900-1950. Peeters Publishers. ISSN 9789042936294. p. 169–184. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2017). The Guilt of the Past: Medievalist Closures and Disclosures. Rethinking history. ISSN 1364-2529. 21(2), p. 235–254. doi: 10.1080/13642529.2017.1304002. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2017). Magic. In Echard, Sian & Rouse, Robert (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 9781118396988. Full text in Research Archive
McWilliams, Stuart (2016). Aleister Crowley's Graphomania and the Transformations of Magical Inscriptivity. Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. ISSN 2161-2196. 5(1), p. 59–85. Full text in Research Archive

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Mcwilliams, Stuart (2025). The Impression of Archaeology. Full text in Research Archive
Mcwilliams, Stuart (2022). Dialogues on the Occultism of Reading. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. p. 70–74. Full text in Research Archive

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Research groups

Temporal Experiments: Literary, Aesthetic and Social Modes of Thinking and Living Time