Dominic Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 75884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8329-9148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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…
About the Cover
On the edge: Chaucer and Gower’s queer glosses
Towards a queer philology
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
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. …
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005 edited by Frans Hinskens
Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: A Review of Recent Works
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
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…
Tyneside English
Tyneside English (TE) is spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne, a city of around 260,000 inhabitants in the far north of England, and in the conurbation stretching east and south of Newcastle along the valley of the River Tyne as far as the North Sea. The total population of this conurbation, which also subsumes Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Shields, Whitley Bay, and Tynemouth, exceeds 800,000. The transcription is based on the speech of a 24-year o…
I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent: Contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system
Evidence is presented in this paper of the levelling of the Tyneside (Newcastle) English vowel system toward that of a putative regional standard. This process is hypothesised to follow from the fragmentation of tight-knit urban communities that formed after large-scale immigration to Tyneside from elsewhere in the British Isles during the 18th and 19th centuries. High levels of dialect contact brought about by this influx are argued to have prom…
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 …
I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent: Contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system
Evidence is presented in this paper of the levelling of the Tyneside (Newcastle) English vowel system toward that of a putative regional standard. This process is hypothesised to follow from the fragmentation of tight-knit urban communities that formed after large-scale immigration to Tyneside from elsewhere in the British Isles during the 18th and 19th centuries. High levels of dialect contact brought about by this influx are argued to have prom…
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
Tyneside English
Tyneside English (TE) is spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne, a city of around 260,000 inhabitants in the far north of England, and in the conurbation stretching east and south of Newcastle along the valley of the River Tyne as far as the North Sea. The total population of this conurbation, which also subsumes Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Shields, Whitley Bay, and Tynemouth, exceeds 800,000. The transcription is based on the speech of a 24-year o…
Towards a queer philology
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…
I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent: Contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system
Evidence is presented in this paper of the levelling of the Tyneside (Newcastle) English vowel system toward that of a putative regional standard. This process is hypothesised to follow from the fragmentation of tight-knit urban communities that formed after large-scale immigration to Tyneside from elsewhere in the British Isles during the 18th and 19th centuries. High levels of dialect contact brought about by this influx are argued to have prom…
Tyneside English
Tyneside English (TE) is spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne, a city of around 260,000 inhabitants in the far north of England, and in the conurbation stretching east and south of Newcastle along the valley of the River Tyne as far as the North Sea. The total population of this conurbation, which also subsumes Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Shields, Whitley Bay, and Tynemouth, exceeds 800,000. The transcription is based on the speech of a 24-year o…
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
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005 edited by Frans Hinskens
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
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. …
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. …
About the Cover
On the edge: Chaucer and Gower’s queer glosses
Towards a queer philology
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…
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