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Williams Honored with Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship

Literature faculty member Phillip B. Williams has been selected as a 2020-21 Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Williams was selected as the Helen Putnam Fellow and will be pursuing his project MUTINY: poems.

He is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship.

Most recently, Williams was the faculty speaker at Bennington College's 85th Commencement, addressing the Class of 2020 at Bennington's first-ever virtual ceremony. Read his full speech.

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Commencement 2020—Faculty Speaker Phillip B. Williams

ABOUT THE RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Radcliffe is Harvard University’s institute for advanced study: a laboratory of ideas that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners from the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions and engages with questions that demand cross-disciplinary exploration. Each year, the Institute hosts leading scholars, scientists, and artists from around the world in its renowned residential fellowship program. Radcliffe fosters innovative research collaborations and offers hundreds of public lectures, exhibitions, performances, conferences, and other events annually. The Institute is home to the Schlesinger Library, the nation’s foremost archive on the history of women, gender, and sexuality. For more information about the Radcliffe Institute, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.