Emilio Williams is a bilingual (Spanish/English) writer and educator. His writing and scholarship are in experimental dialogue with literary traditions.

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He is the author of the open-source textbook Decentering Theater Histories Volume One published by DePaul University Library. He has also contributed to the volumes Autotheory and Its Others  published by Punctum Books) and New Plays from Spain published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. 
 

His experimental essays combine rigorous archival research, life writing, and criticism, and have most recently appeared in Slag Glass City, The Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Brevity Magazine, Writing Disorder, Transatlantica Journal, Hinterland Magazine, Imagined Theatres, and the anthology Beyond Queer Words 2021. 
 

His critically acclaimed plays have been produced in Argentina, Estonia, France, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including the cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Washington, DC. As an independent scholar, he has lectured around the globe and currently holds appointments in the English Department at Dominican University and The Theater School at DePaul University.

Every year, he offers a Playwriting Intensive Course in Paris and advises other playwrights on the development process of new plays.

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Emilio holds a BA in Film and Video and an MFA in Writing. He is now a PhD in Practice Candidate at the University of London Paris Institute, where he is researching how creative practices can contribute to the development and transmission of new knowledge in the humanities.