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Find the brief version of my academic CV HERE.
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We are all burnt by ultraviolet rays. We all contain water in about the same ratio as Earth does, and salt water in the same ratio that the oceans do. We are poems about the hyperobject Earth.


Timothy Morton, 
Hyperobjects:
Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World


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An attempt at an uncohesive narrative HERE.





 Ali Williams is a writer, educator, and creative practitioner from California, a landscape with a deep influence on her transdisciplinary work investigating the human relationship with land, more-than-humans, and each other. Her current research explores the role(s) of attention(s) in creative process through perspectives of embodiment and cognition. This is reflected in and evolves out of her practice centering on materiality, relationality, and attunement, particularly in the consideration of grief in response to environmental, collective, and personal loss.    
             
A full-time Continuing Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ali teaches multimodal composition and communications in media, culture, and the arts, courses that stem from her background in entertainment and advertising. Prior to academia, Ali was the founder and CEO of Raconteur, an international consultancy focused on a creative storytelling approach to publicity, marketing, and brand strategy, where she worked with leading companies and individuals creating influential ideas and content.                 

Ali is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Practice with the Transart Institute through the College of Art & Design at Liverpool John Moores University (UK). Her BA is in Comparative Literature from New York University, and she has a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (poetry/translation) and a Masters in English from Chapman University, where she was the co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary graduate publication for Wilkinson College, which ran for five years in digital/print. Her research engages feminist and queer rhetorical theory, media cultures and communication, and ecological thinking, and her work has been presented in spaces including Peitho Journal, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Levure Litteraire, World Literature Today, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Platform Gallery (UCSB), and the Hilbert Museum of California Art, as well as numerous mainstream publications. 

AMW—’25




1 Please note that this website is a continuous work-in-process, like everything else. If you can’t find something or you’re curious, reach out.

2 Her current research considers the interaction of grieving in personal and ecological spaces, more-than-human ghosts, searching archives and histories for traces of what has been found and lost, and tracing histories of the past to inscribe in the present; and the ways in which humans acknowledge, deny, act upon or negate grief; or that is to say the ways in which grief is acknowledged, denied, acted upon or negated by humans in these spaces. 

3 It’s important to mention that all of the above is just a way to fill a box with a “comprehensive narrative,” an ironic phrase that she simultaneously personally rejects and yet embraces as a professional skill.

4 It is also important to note that Ali loves a good website template, and so will be filling these little boxes with byts of information that may or may not add to the “comprehensive narrative,” and which in fact may (hopefully and intentionally) disrupt that narrative. For example, that Ali was a homebirth midwife assistant and a birth doula for seven years and has attended over forty births, including those of several of her dear friends. You can How does that fit into the above narrative?