Dr. David Watson

Biography

David Watson is an Associate Professor specializing in American Literature at Uppsala University. He joined the Department of English as a research fellow in American literature in 2006 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2010, achieving the status of qualified docent in 2011. Watson's research focuses on modernist poetry and nineteenth-century contemporary American literature, as well as transnational translation studies. He is currently completing a monograph entitled 'Security Cultures: Imperialism, Vulnerability, Twenty-First Century American Fiction' and leading the collaborative project 'Fictions of Threat: Speculation, Security, Surviving', financed by a STINT institutional grant. Watson supervises doctoral theses on American literature and environmental writing. His teaching covers a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, including Modernism, Postmodernism, and life writing. He has published extensively on 19th-century modernist American poets and contemporary novelists, and his recent research examines issues of finance and rhetoric in the contemporary American novel.

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