Diane Watt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Watt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Watt |
| SIGNATURE | WATT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century
Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider…
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
Video Production in Elementary Teacher Education as a Critical Digital Literacy Practice
This article reports on a two-year, funded, qualitative inquiry into the challenges and possibilities of integrating video production into pre-service teacher education as a critical digital literacy practice. This includes the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that lead to ability to critique and create digital texts that interrogate the self, the other, and the world (Ávila & Zacher Pandya, 2013). Video making holds out enormous potential giv…
A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women's Letters
The letters by Anglo-Saxon women in the Boniface correspondence are connected by cultural practices and emotions centered on the conversion mission that functioned to maintain connections between the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. A striking recurring focus of these letters is on loss and isolation, which connects them to the Old English elegies. Many of the letters describe the writers' traumatic experiences that result from the death or absence of kin. …
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
On Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: The Value of Reflexivity
Learning how to conduct qualitative research may seem daunting for those new to the task, especially given the paradigm ’s emphasis on complexity and emergent design. Although there are guidelines in the literature, each project is unique and ultimately the individual researcher must determine how best to proceed . Reflexivity is thus considered essential, potentially facilitating understanding of both the phenomenon under study and the research …
Relighting the Fire: Visualizing the Lesbian in Contemporary India
This article revisits the controversy surrounding Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996), India's first publicly released film depicting female same-sex desire. The film has become a touchstone for discussions of the representation of queer and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lives in India. While the majority of critical accounts of the film have rejected the use of "lesbian" on the basis of its Anglo-American specificity, this article seeks t…
The History of British Women’s Writing, 700–1500
This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside t
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500: Volume One
Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages
The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusi
From the Streets of Peshawar to the Cover of Maclean's Magazine: Reading Images of Muslim Women as Currere to Interrupt Gendered Islamophobia
The mass media acts as a powerful informal curriculum on otherness, with Muslims currently in the starring role. This auto/ethno/graphic bricolage juxtaposes theory, personal narrative and photographs, and readings of media images by young Muslim females, to provoke thought on how visual media discourses constitute our subjectivities. Drawing from postcolonial feminist theory, cultural studies, and post-conceptualist curriculum theory, links are …
Why Men Still Aren't Enough
In 1993 Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, published a special issue titled "Studying Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism." It was a milestone in medieval studies, marking, belatedly, institutional recognition of the important contribution feminism and gender studies had made to transforming scholarly understanding of medieval culture over the previous two decades. Within the special issue, one contribution was by a man: Allen J. …
Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: A Review of Recent Works
Traditional Religious Practices amongst African-Caribbean Mothers and Community Othermothers
African women in the diaspora have been described as not only the essential bearers of tradition but also the 'principal exponents' and protectors of traditional African-derived religion. In their book Lionheart Gal, the Sistren Theatre Collective argues that tales of Nanny of the Maroons bouncing bullets off her bottom might indeed be a description of something that literally took place. It may on the other hand be referring to a greater truth s…
Sins of Omission: Transgressive Genders, Subversive Sexualities, and Confessional Silences in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
The relationship between confessional discourse, interiority or self-consciousness, and the regulation of sexuality is well established. 2 Yet, while in orthodox Christian thought the soul itself was held to be sexless, the penitential literature of the Middle Ages was gendered: it was written by and primarily for men. As Jacqueline Murray has explained "confession and penance was in itself a singularly androcentric sacrament ... whenever women e…
Sins of Omission: Transgressive Genders, Subversive Sexualities, and Confessional Silences in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
The relationship between confessional discourse, interiority or self-consciousness, and the regulation of sexuality is well established. 2Yet, while in orthodox Christian thought the soul itself was held to be sexless, the penitential literature of the Middle Ages was gendered: it was written by and primarily for men.As Jacqueline Murray has explained "confession and penance was in itself a singularly androcentric sacrament ... whenever women ent…
Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Reconstructing the Word: The Political Prophecies of Elizabeth Barton (1506-1534)
On 20 April 1534, a twenty-eight year-old Benedictine nun from the convent of St Sepulchre's in Canterbury was hanged at Tyburn alongside her confessor and a number of their associates. The nun was Elizabeth Barton, a former servant from the parish of Aldington in Kent. Barton and her companions were attainted of treason by a Parliamentary Act which asserts that they maliciously opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine of Aragon and “‘traterou…
The Posthumous Reputation of the Holy Maid of Kent
At the beginning of his essay entitled ‘How To Be a Counter-Reformation Saint’, Peter Burke observes
On Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: The Value of Reflexivity
Learning how to conduct qualitative research may seem daunting for those new to the task, especially given the paradigm ’s emphasis on complexity and emergent design. Although there are guidelines in the literature, each project is unique and ultimately the individual researcher must determine how best to proceed . Reflexivity is thus considered essential, potentially facilitating understanding of both the phenomenon under study and the research …
From the Streets of Peshawar to the Cover of Maclean's Magazine: Reading Images of Muslim Women as Currere to Interrupt Gendered Islamophobia
The mass media acts as a powerful informal curriculum on otherness, with Muslims currently in the starring role. This auto/ethno/graphic bricolage juxtaposes theory, personal narrative and photographs, and readings of media images by young Muslim females, to provoke thought on how visual media discourses constitute our subjectivities. Drawing from postcolonial feminist theory, cultural studies, and post-conceptualist curriculum theory, links are …
Relighting the Fire: Visualizing the Lesbian in Contemporary India
This article revisits the controversy surrounding Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996), India's first publicly released film depicting female same-sex desire. The film has become a touchstone for discussions of the representation of queer and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lives in India. While the majority of critical accounts of the film have rejected the use of "lesbian" on the basis of its Anglo-American specificity, this article seeks t…
Why Men Still Aren't Enough
In 1993 Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, published a special issue titled "Studying Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism." It was a milestone in medieval studies, marking, belatedly, institutional recognition of the important contribution feminism and gender studies had made to transforming scholarly understanding of medieval culture over the previous two decades. Within the special issue, one contribution was by a man: Allen J. …
Sins of Omission: Transgressive Genders, Subversive Sexualities, and Confessional Silences in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
The relationship between confessional discourse, interiority or self-consciousness, and the regulation of sexuality is well established. 2 Yet, while in orthodox Christian thought the soul itself was held to be sexless, the penitential literature of the Middle Ages was gendered: it was written by and primarily for men. As Jacqueline Murray has explained "confession and penance was in itself a singularly androcentric sacrament ... whenever women e…
The Posthumous Reputation of the Holy Maid of Kent
At the beginning of his essay entitled ‘How To Be a Counter-Reformation Saint’, Peter Burke observes
Reconstructing the Word: The Political Prophecies of Elizabeth Barton (1506-1534)
On 20 April 1534, a twenty-eight year-old Benedictine nun from the convent of St Sepulchre's in Canterbury was hanged at Tyburn alongside her confessor and a number of their associates. The nun was Elizabeth Barton, a former servant from the parish of Aldington in Kent. Barton and her companions were attainted of treason by a Parliamentary Act which asserts that they maliciously opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine of Aragon and “‘traterou…
Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Sins of Omission: Transgressive Genders, Subversive Sexualities, and Confessional Silences in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
The relationship between confessional discourse, interiority or self-consciousness, and the regulation of sexuality is well established. 2 Yet, while in orthodox Christian thought the soul itself was held to be sexless, the penitential literature of the Middle Ages was gendered: it was written by and primarily for men. As Jacqueline Murray has explained "confession and penance was in itself a singularly androcentric sacrament ... whenever women e…
Sins of Omission: Transgressive Genders, Subversive Sexualities, and Confessional Silences in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
The relationship between confessional discourse, interiority or self-consciousness, and the regulation of sexuality is well established. 2Yet, while in orthodox Christian thought the soul itself was held to be sexless, the penitential literature of the Middle Ages was gendered: it was written by and primarily for men.As Jacqueline Murray has explained "confession and penance was in itself a singularly androcentric sacrament ... whenever women ent…
Traditional Religious Practices amongst African-Caribbean Mothers and Community Othermothers
African women in the diaspora have been described as not only the essential bearers of tradition but also the 'principal exponents' and protectors of traditional African-derived religion. In their book Lionheart Gal, the Sistren Theatre Collective argues that tales of Nanny of the Maroons bouncing bullets off her bottom might indeed be a description of something that literally took place. It may on the other hand be referring to a greater truth s…
Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: A Review of Recent Works
Why Men Still Aren't Enough
In 1993 Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, published a special issue titled "Studying Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism." It was a milestone in medieval studies, marking, belatedly, institutional recognition of the important contribution feminism and gender studies had made to transforming scholarly understanding of medieval culture over the previous two decades. Within the special issue, one contribution was by a man: Allen J. …
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500: Volume One
Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages
The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusi
From the Streets of Peshawar to the Cover of Maclean's Magazine: Reading Images of Muslim Women as Currere to Interrupt Gendered Islamophobia
The mass media acts as a powerful informal curriculum on otherness, with Muslims currently in the starring role. This auto/ethno/graphic bricolage juxtaposes theory, personal narrative and photographs, and readings of media images by young Muslim females, to provoke thought on how visual media discourses constitute our subjectivities. Drawing from postcolonial feminist theory, cultural studies, and post-conceptualist curriculum theory, links are …
The History of British Women’s Writing, 700–1500
This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside t
Relighting the Fire: Visualizing the Lesbian in Contemporary India
This article revisits the controversy surrounding Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996), India's first publicly released film depicting female same-sex desire. The film has become a touchstone for discussions of the representation of queer and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lives in India. While the majority of critical accounts of the film have rejected the use of "lesbian" on the basis of its Anglo-American specificity, this article seeks t…
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
On Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: The Value of Reflexivity
Learning how to conduct qualitative research may seem daunting for those new to the task, especially given the paradigm ’s emphasis on complexity and emergent design. Although there are guidelines in the literature, each project is unique and ultimately the individual researcher must determine how best to proceed . Reflexivity is thus considered essential, potentially facilitating understanding of both the phenomenon under study and the research …
A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women's Letters
The letters by Anglo-Saxon women in the Boniface correspondence are connected by cultural practices and emotions centered on the conversion mission that functioned to maintain connections between the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. A striking recurring focus of these letters is on loss and isolation, which connects them to the Old English elegies. Many of the letters describe the writers' traumatic experiences that result from the death or absence of kin. …
Video Production in Elementary Teacher Education as a Critical Digital Literacy Practice
This article reports on a two-year, funded, qualitative inquiry into the challenges and possibilities of integrating video production into pre-service teacher education as a critical digital literacy practice. This includes the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that lead to ability to critique and create digital texts that interrogate the self, the other, and the world (Ávila & Zacher Pandya, 2013). Video making holds out enormous potential giv…
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century
Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider…
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally
Art (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · History (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Literature (7 works) · Medieval Literature and History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)