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Norwich University English professor earns spot in Senior Leadership Academy By NU Office of Communications April 22, 2021 NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Norwich University English Professor Dr. Lea Williams has earned a spot in the 2021-22 Council of Independent Colleges and the American Academic Leadership Institute’s Senior Leadership Academy, a nationally competitive program. Williams is one of 41 participants chosen to participate in this program, which is designed to offer midlevel leaders at independent colleges and universities leadership training for future promotions in...

Chair, Department of English and Communications Lea M. Williams received her B.A. in comparative literature from the American University of Paris and her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation was about the literature of war, a topic, though she did not realize it at the time, that would prepare her to take a position at Norwich University. Here, she regularly teaches military literature and other war-related courses, including special topics courses on women and war, World War I, and the Vietnam War — once taking students to Vietnam for a...