DIRECTORY INFORMATION Virginia Tech Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures 341 Major Williams Hall (0225) Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA (540) 231-9009 E-mail: rjwatson@vt.edu ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Rank: Associate Professor. At Virginia Tech since May 1999. Incoming Editor, The Minnesota Review. Graduate Studies Director, M.A. program in Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Adjunct Associate Professor, Women's Studies. Faculty affliliate, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT).

EDUCATION

PhD in French, Duke University 1995.

TEACHING INTERESTS

French language; 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century French literature; French cinema; cultural studies; critical theory.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought: Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze. London: Continuum, 2009.

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUE

Janell Watson and Claire Colebrook, co-editors. Women: A Cultural Review, special issue on Guattari and gender, 16.3 (Winter 2005-2006).

RECENT ARTICLES / CHAPTERS

“Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari.” In Deleuze and Politics. Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn, editors. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Pp. 196-217.

“Schizoanalysis as Metamodeling,” Fibreculture 12 (2008), special issue on “Models, Metamodels and Contemporary Media,” edited by Gary Genosko and Andrew Murphie,  np.

“Introduction: Guattari and Gender,” Women: A Cultural Review 16.3 (Winter 2005-2006): 267-270.

 “Schizo-Performativity: Neurosis and Politics in Judith Butler and Félix Guattari,” Women: A Cultural Review 16.3 (Winter 2005-2006): 305-320.

“The Face of Christ: Deleuze and Guattari on the Politics of Word and Image,” The Bible and Critical Theory 1.2, (2005): 4.1-4.14.

“Oil Wars, or Extra-State Conflict ‘beyond the Line’: Schmitt’s Nomos, Deleuze’s War Machine, and the New Order of the Earth,” South Atlantic Quarterly, special issue on Carl Schmitt, 104.2 (Spring 2005): 349-357.

“Intimacy without Domestication: Courtly Love in A Thousand Plateaus.” L’Esprit Créateur, special issue on domesticity, 44.1 (Spring 2004): 83-95