Jerry Wayne Williamson

Background

Jerry Williamson was born on March 17, 1944, in Dallas, Texas, United States. He was the son of David Alexander and Emma Irene Williamson.

Education

Jerry received a Bachelor of Arts from Wayland College in 1966. He then earned a Master of Arts in 1968 and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1970.

Career

Jerry Williamson worked as an English professor at Appalachian State University from 1970 to 2000. He taught classes in Appalachian Literature and Appalachian Film as well as Appalachian Studies Colloquium. He edited the Appalachian Journal, An Appalachian Symposium: essays written in honor of Cratis D. Williams, and Interviewing Appalachia: the Appalachian journal interviews from 1978 to 1992. Williamson also served as a film consultant at Appalshop Inc. in Whitesburg from 1995 to 1997.

He wrote The myth of the conqueror: Prince Henry Stuart, a study of 17th-century personation, which was published in 1978. His other works include Southern mountaineers in silent films: plot synopses of movies about moonshining, feuding, and other mountain topics, 1904-1929 and Hillbillyland: what the movies did to the mountains and what the mountains did to the movies.

Achievements

• Jerry Wayne Williamson was a prolific writer. He was also listed as a noteworthy History educator and editor by Marquis magazine.

Works

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  • Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films

    (This reference work provides production company-written p...)

    1994
  • The Myth of the Conqueror: Prince Henry Stuart

    (Prince Henry was the son of James I of England and as Pri...)

    1978
  • Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies

    (J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are so...)

    1995

Membership

Williamson was a member of Appalachian Studies Association.

Connections

Williamson married Gaylan Annette Six Corbin on August 20, 1965. They divorced in 1981. He then married Pamela Louise Powell on March 2, 1983.

Father:

David Alexander Williamson

Mother:

Emma Irene Williamson

Spouse:

Pamela Louise Powell

ex-spouse:

Gaylan Annette Six Corbin