Faculty Member, English & Drama
Lecturer in English and Drama
About
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, 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 Gilles Deleuze, Tadeusz Kantor and Bruno Schulz, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Derrida, Puppets, and Glossolalia; journal articles have been published in Performance Research, RIDE, Journal for Cultural Research and Wormwood. I am associate editor of the Performing Ethos journal.
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 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.
Contact Information
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/Staff/Staff%20Profiles/Daniel%20Watt.htm
Department of English and Drama
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire, UK.
LE11 3TU
00 44 (0) 1509 222956
