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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, East Park
Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1
Publications
Teaching
I teach the semester one modules ‘Theatre of the Fantastic’ and ‘Revolt Against Fate’; semester two modules ‘Performing the Absurd’ and ‘Grand Guignol’. On the MA programme I teach sessions on ‘Theatre and Theory: Performance and Culture’ and ‘Weird Fiction’. I am Drama Exams Officer.
I also enjoy teaching sessions on 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 pervasive gaming. I also co-supervise four PhD students; Virginie Ganivet, on the English Mr Punch; Thom Freeth, on Audience Participation; Susie Mower, on the search for meaning in the work of Samuel Beckett, and Peter Griffiths on Fictocriticism. I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students looking to work in any area of my research interests.
Research
My research interests include philosophical and literary influences on theatre and performance in the Twentieth century, particularly the work of 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.
I am co-investigator on an AHRC Network project, ‘Foundations for Object Theatre’, with Sean Myatt at NTU. Two meetings of international object theatre practitioners and researchers are scheduled for December 2011 and March 2012. I am also involved in a joint research project, Theatres of Memory, with artists and institutes in Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw.
Current publication projects include a book, The Consciousness of Objects, with Rodopi Press; and two edited collections, Final Stages: Death, Performance and Culture (with Robert John Brocklehurst), and Marginal Things: Puppet Phenomena from Print to Performance (with Dr Nick Freeman).
My previously published work includes Fragmentary Futures: Blanchot, Beckett, Coetzee; three co-edited books, A Performance Cosmology, Theatres of Thought and Ethical Encounters; two co-edited issues of Performance Research: On Objects and Memento Mori; book chapters on Death and Language, Gilles Deleuze, Tadeusz Kantor and Bruno Schulz, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Derrida, Puppets, Glossolalia, and Levinas and Theatre; 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. Further information about my research can be found at Academia.edu.
I am co-convenor, with Dr Eve Katsouraki (University of East London), 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.
My fiction has appeared in Sein und Werden and with Megazanthus Press, Side Real Press and Ex Occidente Press, including a collection of short stories An Emporium of Automata, June 2010. The second edition of my previous collection, Pieces for Puppets and Other Cadavers, was published in August 2010. Further details at The Interlude House.
