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Dr Daniel Watt
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 222956
Role: Senior Lecturer in English and Drama
Email:D.P.Watt@lboro.ac.uk
Room NN.0.18, Martin Hall Building, East Park
Publications
Teaching
I teach the modules ‘Theatre of the Fantastic’, ‘Adaptation for Stage’, ‘Performing the Absurd’ and ‘Grand Guignol’ and co-teach ‘Revolt Against Fate’, ‘Brecht: Critical Stages’. On the MA programme I teach sessions on ‘Theatre and Theory: Performance and Culture’ and ‘Weird Fiction’. 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 am Drama subject leader.
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 offering network opportunities for international object theatre practitioners and researchers, the first event was held in December 2011 and the second is scheduled for June 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, Sacrum Regnum and with Megazanthus Press, Side Real Press and Ex Occidente Press, including a collection of short stories An Emporium of Automata and a novella The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller. The second edition of my previous collection, Pieces for Puppets and Other Cadavers, was published in August 2010. Further details at The Interlude House.
