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. Editor, The Minnesota Review. Graduate Studies Director, M.A. program in Foreign Languages, Cultures and Literatures. Adjunct Associate Professor, Women's and Gender 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. Guattari and gender. Spec. issue of Women: A Cultural Review, special issue on , 16.3 (Winter 2005-2006).

RECENT ARTICLES / CHAPTERS

“Postface.” La Révolution moléculaire. Expanded ed. By Félix Guattari. Ed. Stéphane Nadaud. Paris: Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2012. 537-560. Print.

“Butler’s Biopolitics: Precarious Communities.” Theory and Event 15.2 (2012): n. pag. 10,500 words. Web.

“Culture as Existential Territory: Ecosophic Homelands for the 21st Century.” Guattari and Semiocapitalism. Spec. issue of Deleuze Studies 6.2 (2012): 158–179. Print.

“Culture and the Future of French Studies.” Seismic Shifts II. Spec. issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 14.5 (2010): 477–484. Print.

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

“Schizoanalysis as Metamodeling.” Models, Metamodels and Contemporary Media. Spec. issue of Fibreculture 12 (2008): n. pag. 9,750 words. Web.