Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English and a Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (reprinted in 2009) and has completed a scholarly text of The Awkward Age for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Other edited volumes include Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South (Routledge, 2020) and several recent journal issues.

• 1. Framing ‘Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance’ 2. Trump the Antisemantic, and the Boundaries of Populism 3. Populism and the Politics of Misinformation 4. Acts of Collusion: Myth, Media and the Populist Imagination in the 2016 United States Presidential Election 5. Burying Caesar . . . or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States 6. Populism and Dog Whistle Writing: The Memoirs of J.D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates 7. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First-Century American Politics 8. Authoritarianism and the Planetary Mission of Queer of Colour Critique: A Short Reflection 9. Authoritarian Patriarchy and Its Populism 10. Heritage, Narrative and the Role of the Humanities in Populist Times 11. Perplexing the Liquid University 12. Responding to Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms and Our Teaching 13. Global Populism and Its 1890s Southern United States Antecedent: The Vexing Case of Thomas E. Watson and William Faulkner’s Literary Intervention 14. Populism, Privilege and Democracy in Henry James’s The Bostonians: Encounters with Community 15. Autochthonous Oralities and Coral Islands: Imagining ‘The People’ in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Southern Fugitives 16. Populism vs. the Popular in South African Literature 17. Asbestos Populism in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 18. ‘Don’t tell me this isn’t relevant all over again in its brand new same old way’: Imagination, Agitation and Raging against the Machine in Ali Smith’s Spring 19. UDPS Opposition Populism in the DRC and Its Reflection in Two Congolese Novels 20. Authoritarian Populism and the Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust 21. Finding the ‘Herstorical’ Narrative in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give

Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English and a Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (reprinted in 2009) and has completed a scholarly text of The Awkward Age for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Other edited volumes include Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South (Routledge, 2020) and several recent journal issues.

• 1. Framing ‘Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance’ 2. Trump the Antisemantic, and the Boundaries of Populism 3. Populism and the Politics of Misinformation 4. Acts of Collusion: Myth, Media and the Populist Imagination in the 2016 United States Presidential Election 5. Burying Caesar . . . or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States 6. Populism and Dog Whistle Writing: The Memoirs of J.D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates 7. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First-Century American Politics 8. Authoritarianism and the Planetary Mission of Queer of Colour Critique: A Short Reflection 9. Authoritarian Patriarchy and Its Populism 10. Heritage, Narrative and the Role of the Humanities in Populist Times 11. Perplexing the Liquid University 12. Responding to Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms and Our Teaching 13. Global Populism and Its 1890s Southern United States Antecedent: The Vexing Case of Thomas E. Watson and William Faulkner’s Literary Intervention 14. Populism, Privilege and Democracy in Henry James’s The Bostonians: Encounters with Community 15. Autochthonous Oralities and Coral Islands: Imagining ‘The People’ in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Southern Fugitives 16. Populism vs. the Popular in South African Literature 17. Asbestos Populism in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 18. ‘Don’t tell me this isn’t relevant all over again in its brand new same old way’: Imagination, Agitation and Raging against the Machine in Ali Smith’s Spring 19. UDPS Opposition Populism in the DRC and Its Reflection in Two Congolese Novels 20. Authoritarian Populism and the Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust 21. Finding the ‘Herstorical’ Narrative in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give

Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English and a Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (reprinted in 2009) and has completed a scholarly text of The Awkward Age for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Other edited volumes include Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South (Routledge, 2020) and several recent journal issues.

• 1. Framing ‘Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance’ 2. Trump the Antisemantic, and the Boundaries of Populism 3. Populism and the Politics of Misinformation 4. Acts of Collusion: Myth, Media and the Populist Imagination in the 2016 United States Presidential Election 5. Burying Caesar . . . or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States 6. Populism and Dog Whistle Writing: The Memoirs of J.D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates 7. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First-Century American Politics 8. Authoritarianism and the Planetary Mission of Queer of Colour Critique: A Short Reflection 9. Authoritarian Patriarchy and Its Populism 10. Heritage, Narrative and the Role of the Humanities in Populist Times 11. Perplexing the Liquid University 12. Responding to Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms and Our Teaching 13. Global Populism and Its 1890s Southern United States Antecedent: The Vexing Case of Thomas E. Watson and William Faulkner’s Literary Intervention 14. Populism, Privilege and Democracy in Henry James’s The Bostonians: Encounters with Community 15. Autochthonous Oralities and Coral Islands: Imagining ‘The People’ in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Southern Fugitives 16. Populism vs. the Popular in South African Literature 17. Asbestos Populism in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 18. ‘Don’t tell me this isn’t relevant all over again in its brand new same old way’: Imagination, Agitation and Raging against the Machine in Ali Smith’s Spring 19. UDPS Opposition Populism in the DRC and Its Reflection in Two Congolese Novels 20. Authoritarian Populism and the Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust 21. Finding the ‘Herstorical’ Narrative in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give