Bronwyn T. Williams is a professor of English and Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition. He is also director of the University of Louisville Writing Center. He writes and teaches on issues of literacy, identity, digital media, sustainability, community writing, and creative nonfiction. His most recent book is Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency: Composing Identities. His other books include New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders (with Amy Zenger), Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading and Writing Online, Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy (with Amy Zenger), Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education, and Tuned In: Television and the Teaching of Writing. His recurring research interests focus on the intersections of the literacy practices people engage in during their daily lives and the literacy practices they encounter in schools and universities. In addition, he studies how digital media technologies change the ways people engage in reading and writing, including participatory popular culture. He is currently working on a book project based on interviews with students about their complex, affective, and often disruptive experiences of writing and learning during the global pandemic. He has researched and taught in the U.S. and abroad, including in the United Kingdom and Kazakhstan. He also writes creative nonfiction, both as an approach to scholarly writing and as essays on other subjects. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow in 2013.