PD Dr. Patrick Ian Watson
British and Irish Literature and Culture; Literary Writing
PD Dr. Patrick Ian Watson
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Werdegang ‒ Curriculum Vitae
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Studied at the Queen's University of Belfast, later post as temporary lecturer, completing a PhD in Comparative Literature there in 1971. Has published poetry, essays and reviews alongside scholarly publications since 1969.
Resident in Bremen since 1972. Married, with two children. Post-doc dissertation (Habilitation) in 1985. Various posts at the University of Bremen: Assistenzprofessor, Professor auf Zeit, Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben - and, since 2002, as Hochschuldozent/Senior Lecturer for British and Irish Literature and Culture and Creative Writing.
Founding editor of newleaf magazine (1994), now co-editor with Simon Makhali (Bremen) & Julia Boll (Edinburgh) - since 1994. Werder Bremen season-ticket holder.
Lehre
- Literary writing (formerly "Creative Writing" - poetry and narrative)
- The eighteenth and nineteenth-century novel, particularly Austen, Dickens and the industrial novel
- British and Irish poetry from 1750 to the present, particularly Romanticism and contemporary
- Twentieth-century war poetry
- Contemporary British and Irish fiction
- Popular music
- Football culture
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Theory and didactics of Literary Writing
- British football culture
- War and anti-war literature
- British and Irish folk song and popular music
Publikationen
- War and Peace: Voices from the Battlefield ( Stuttgart 1995)
- Alive and Kicking: Fußball zwischen Deutschland und England (Hamburg/Berlin 1995, co-editor)
- Song and Democratic Culture (London/New York 1982)
- Founder and co-editor newleaf magazine
- Scholarly essays; reviews; radio features; television film
- Literary translation
- Poetry in English and German