Diane Watt
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Diane Watt is a British medievalist, currently Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey. She previously held a personal chair at Aberystwyth University, where she was Deputy Director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). She was Charles A. Owen Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut in 2005.[1] She was awarded a Snell Exhibition to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford,[citation needed] and was awarded her DPhil in 1993.
Works
Watt is the author of two important books on late medieval women's writing: Secretaries of God[2], and Medieval Women's Writing[3]. She has also written a study of the work of Chaucer's friend and literary executor John Gower, entitled Amoral Gower[4] which received critical praise in the journal Speculum.[5] She was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize for Amoral Gower in 2004.[6] She has also published an edition of the letters of the Paston women,[7] and has edited and co-edited a number of other works. She was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship in 2016 for her project "Women's Literary Culture Before the Conquest".[8] Major Research Fellowships are awarded to "enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance". From 2015-2017 she led the Leverhulme-funded international research network, "Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon".[9]
References
- ^ "Visiting Professors". University of Connecticut. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ Watt, Diane (1997). Secretaries of God. D S Brewer. ISBN 0859916146.
- ^ Watt, Diane (2007). Medieval Women's Writing. Polity. ISBN 978-0-7456-3255-1.
- ^ Watt, Diane (2003). Amoral Gower. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816640287.
- ^ Baker, Denise. "Speculum". University of Chicago Press Journals. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "John Hurt Fisher Prize". John Gower Society. John Gower Society.
- ^ Watt, Diane (2004). The Paston Women: Selected Letters. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843840244.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Women's Literary Culture Before the Conquest". Women's Literary Culture Before the Conquest. University of Surrey. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon". Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon. University of Surrey. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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