Stephen Watt (Email; phone 812-855-3140)
Professor
PhD: University of Illinois, 1982

Stephen Watt's major research interests include Irish and Irish-American studies, drama and theatre history, Cold War culture, and the state of the university. He has published on such figures as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, and Karen Finley and on such topics as Victorian melodrama, the Abbey Theatre, contemporary performance art, and the economics of graduate education. Professor Watt has won both teaching and service awards from IU, along with a number of research fellowships and grants.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Irish Studies; Joyce; Drama and Theatre, 1800-present; Cold War culture; postmodern culture; the contemporary university and the profession of English

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RECENT WRITING
"Brian Friel and the Northern Troubles Play," The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel, ed. Anthony Roche (forthcoming, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

"Modern American Drama," in The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism," ed. Walter Kalaidjian, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 102-126.

"007 and 9-11, Specters and Structures of Feeling," in The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 (2005), pp. 238-259.

The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 , eds. Edward Comentale, Stephen Watt, and Skip Willman ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).

Office Hours: Essays on Activism and Change in the Academy, (New York: Routledge, 2004), co-authored with Cary Nelson.

Understanding Literature , by Walter Kalaidjian, Judith Roof, and Stephen Watt (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).

"Anticipating the Abbey-and Beyond," in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 18-32.

"It Seems (Af)filiation Is To Blame," Affiliation: Politics, Prestige, and the Academy, ed. Jeffrey DiLeo ( Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 162-72.

"Samuel Beckett, Late Modernism, and Bernard MacLaverty's Recent Fiction, New Hibernia Review 6 (Summer 2002): 53-64.

"Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet," A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage, ed. Stephen Watt, et al ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 130-145.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Co-editor, A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage, (Indiana UP, 2000).

Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education, (Routledge, 1999), co-authored with Cary Nelson

Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, (U of Michigan P, 1998)

Marketing Modernisms, ed. Kevin Dettmar and Stephen Watt (U of Michigan P, 1996).

American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary, eds. Stephen Watt and Gary A. Richardson (Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1995).

Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theater (Syracuse UP, 1991) Irish Studies Series.

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
President, Midwest Modern Language Association, 1999-2000; Executive Committee, American Conference for Irish Studies, 1999-2001; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship, 1999; NEH Fellowship (1998-99); Howard Fellow (Brown University), 1992-93