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Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., Yale University
Office location:
C-262 Padelford
Phone: (206) 543-4337
Email: rhwatts@u.washington.edu
Richard
Watts has research and teaching interests in the post/colonial francophone
world. He is the author of Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture
of Literary Identity in the Francophone World (Lexington Books, 2005),
which considers how the presentation of books – their covers, illustrations,
dedications, and, most significantly, prefaces – allowed them to
pass from the post/colonial space of their production to the largely metropolitan
French space of their consumption. Written at the intersection of postcolonial
studies and ecocriticism, his current project, tentatively titled Water
Narratives: Imagining Global Environmental Change in the Francophone Post/colonial
World, examines how the pollution, privatization, and manufactured
scarcity of water are rapidly altering its previously stable symbolic
value in literature, cinema and other forms of cultural production. He
has published on these and other subjects in Modern Language Notes,
Research in African Literatures, Traducation-Terminologie-Rédaction,
French Forum, and Sites. He will be a research fellow at
the University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities in 2009-2010
and will have a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
in Winter 2010.
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