James Williams, PhD

Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics Soka University

  • Aliso Viejo CA

Professor Williams examines education using Baudrillard's perspective on consumerism and simulacra

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Biography

James Williams focuses on neoliberalism and higher education, classical rhetoric, writing pedagogy, psycholinguistics.

Areas of Expertise

Clasical Rhetoric
Psycholinguistics
Assessment
Neoliberalism
Higher Education
Writing Pedagogy
Cognition
Syntax
Education Policy

Accomplishments

Finalist, editorship of College English

2015

Finalist, with Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition, “An Alaskan Education.”

2014

Education

University of Southern California

Ph. D.

Rhetoric and Linguistics

San Jose State University

M. A.

English

San Jose State University

B. A.

English

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Affiliations

  • NCTE
  • AERA

Research Focus

Rhetoricized Reality

This project examines Rudich’s proposal that life during the first two centuries of the Roman Empire was characterized by dissimulation to such an extent that it had become “rhetoricized.” It then draws comparisons with current American society, considering instances of what Baudrillard referred to as “fake originals” that suggest that a rhetoricized existence was not limited to Rome.

Research Grants

Cohort Analysis of ESL Academic Achievement in Grades 1–6

LAUSD Title VII Continuation Grant

2001
Lead Writer

Academic Achievement of ESL Students in Grades 1–6

LAUSD Title VII Continuation Grant

2000
Lead Writer

Assessment of Nonnative English Speaking Students in Grades 1–6

LAUSD Title VII Continuation Grant

1999
Lead Writer

Articles

First-Year Composition and Transfer: A Quantitative Study

Journal of Pedagogic Development, 7, 8–21.

2017
(With Minami Hattori)

Composition and the Search for Self-Awareness

Journal of Pedagogic Development 6, 30−41

2016

Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jean Baudrillard

Journal of Pedagogic Development, 6, 2, 24–29.

2016
(With Robert Allinson)

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