English and Drama

  
         Dr Daniel Watt

         Tel: +44 (0) 1509 222956
          
         Role: Lecturer in Drama
         
         Email: D.P.Watt@lboro.ac.uk

         Room NN.0.18, Martin Hall Building, E Block, East Park

         
Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm, Wednesday 12-1pm
        
Publications

Teaching

I teach the semester one modules ‘Theatre of the Fantastic’, ‘Performing the Absurd’, and ‘Adaptation for Stage and Film’; semester two modules ‘Grand Guignol’, ‘Group Project’, and ‘Performance 2’. I am also module coordinator for ‘Individual Topic’ and ‘Drama Dissertation’. On the MA programme I teach the semester two module ‘Performance, Politics and Philosophy’, and sessions on ‘Theatre and Theory: Performance and Culture’ and ‘Radical Directions’.

I also enjoy teaching sessions on some modules in the English Department including ‘Beckett and Pinter’, ‘The Weird Tale’ and in the Creative Writing programme on the short story, the horror and supernatural as genre, and on Small Press publishing.

I supervise PhD student, Hannah Nicklin, working on theatre and technology. I also co-supervise two PhD students; Frederic Dalmasso, on the theatre of Alain Badiou, and Virginie Ganivet, on the English Mr Punch. I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students looking to work in any area of my research interests.

I am MA coordinator and Drama Exams Officer.

Research

My research interests include philosophical and literary influences on theatre and performance in the Twentieth century, particularly the work of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor. My other research work is focused on the literary/theatrical fantastic, literary/performance ethics, fragmentary writing, death in performance and culture, and the nature of the puppet, or abject object, in performance.

My published work includes Fragmentary Futures: Blanchot, Beckett, Coetzee; two co-edited books, A Performance Cosmology and Theatres of Thought; book chapters on Death and Language, Gilles Deleuze, Tadeusz Kantor and Bruno Schulz, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Derrida, Puppets, and Glossolalia; journal articles have been published in Polish Theatre Perspectives, Performance Research, RIDE, Journal for Cultural Research and Wormwood. I am associate editor of Performing Ethos Journal.





Current projects include a book on The Consciousness of Objects, with Rodopi Press; a book on Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (with Dr Will Slocombe, University of Wales, Aberystwyth); three edited collections, Ethical Encounters: Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy, (with Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe), Final Stages: Death, Performance and Culture (with Robert John Brocklehurst), and Marginal Things: Puppet Phenomena from Print to Performance (with Dr Nick Freeman); and guest editorship of Memento Mori, an issue of Performance Research (March 2010). I am also involved in a joint research project, Theatres of Memory, with artists and institutes in Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw.

I am keen to promote the establishment of philosophical societies in the UK and have given guest lectures for such societies in Bath, Cheltenham and Aberystwyth. I am co-convenor, with Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (University of Lincoln) of the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association).

My creative research includes writing plays, poetry and fiction. I am also partner in a publishing company: InkerMen Press, publishing alternative fiction, plays and criticism. I am the editor of the Axis Series.



Last Updated 27/08/09