Professor William Watkin
Professor - English
- English
- English and Creative Writing
Teaching
William Watkin has taught a wide variety of areas at Brunel. His current teaching interests revolve around the changing face of literary theory in the new millennium. He runs courses on the relation of philosophy to literature and the arts from the historical origins of aesthetics through to the most contemporary philosophical statements on aesthetics and literature. He has also taught contemporary literature for many years, specialising in contemporary poetry and poetics. He has a wider interest in poetics and has taught the history of poetry. Another interest is the avant-garde and experimentalism. He taught modernism and the avant-garde for many years and continues to run seminars on experimental, contemporary poetry.Activities:
Key Publications:
鈥淭he Poetics of Presentation: Lyn Hejinian鈥檚 My Life Project and the work of Giorgio Agamben鈥 Textual Practice 2012.
鈥淭he / Turn and the 鈥 鈥 Pause: Agamben, Derrida and the Stratification of Poetry鈥 in Textures Series, Lexington Press 2011.
鈥淧oetry鈥檚 Promiscuous Plurality: On a Part of Jean-Luc Nancy鈥檚 The Muses[PG1] 鈥 in Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking SUNY 2011.
The Literary Agamben: Adventures in Logopoiesis (London: Continuum University Press, March 2010). 鈥淒errida鈥檚 Limits: Aporias between 鈥極usia and Gramm膿鈥,鈥 Derrida Today 3.1 (2010): 113-136.
鈥淧rojective Recursion: The Structure of Ron Silliman鈥檚 Tjanting,鈥 Jacket 39 (2010).
鈥淭aking steps beyond elegy: poetry, philosophy, lineation, and death,鈥 Textual Practice 23.6 (2009): 1051-1065.
鈥淭he Materialization of Prose: Poiesis versus Dianoia in the work of Godzich & Kittay, Schklovsky, Silliman and Agamben,鈥 Paragraph 31.3 (2008): 344-364.
鈥溾楽ystematic rule-governed violations of convention鈥: Ron Silliman鈥檚 Poetic Procedures,鈥 Contemporary Literature 48.4, 2007: 499-529.
鈥淐ounterchange: Derrida鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 in Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction (London: Continuum, 2007).
On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature. (Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
鈥淩evolution, Melancholia and Materiality in the Work of Julia Kristeva鈥. Paragraph 26.3 (2003): 86-107.
鈥淔riendly Little Communities: Derrida鈥檚 Politics of Death.鈥 Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics 15.2 (2002): 219-237.
In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde. (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2001).
鈥淧oetry Machines: Repetition in the Early Poetry of Kenneth Koch.鈥 EnterText 1.1 (Dec. 2000): 83-117.