Evan Calder Williams
Associate Professor
Dr. Evan Calder Williams is an Associate Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where he teaches the yearlong course Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art, in addition to elective graduate seminars and a seminar on Disability Studies in the undergraduate Human Rights department. He is the author of four books: Combined and Uneven Apocalypse; Roman Letters; Shard Cinema; and Inhuman Resources. He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism. His essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogs and in journals including Film Quarterly, Cultural Politics, WdW Review, The Italianist, Frieze, La Furia Umana, World Picture, The Journal of American Studies, Mute, and Estetica. He was a founding member of the film and research collective 13BC and is a contributing editor at e-flux Journal. His solo and collaborative films have been shown at institutions such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, 80WSE, MoMA, Images Festival, mumok, Portikus, Swiss Institute, and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. He received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his doctoral research. His debut novel The Losing Team is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2027.
