Adam Watt

Adam Watt is Professor of French & Comparative Literature and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter. He is a scholar of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. As author and editor he has published a number of books on the life and work of Marcel Proust. These include Reading in Proust’s ‘A la recherche’: ‘le délire de la lecture’ (Oxford University Press, 2009); The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2011; Persian translation 2019); Marcel Proust in Context (editor, 2013); and a critical biography for Reaktion Books (2013, Chinese translation 2015, Turkish translation 2022). He has published comparative critical essays and articles in English and French on authors including Valéry, Rivière, Beckett, Barthes, Dante, Kosofsky-Sedgwick, and contemporary English-language translation and adaptation of poetry in French. His articles have been translated into Danish and German. He is editor of the forty-chapter Cambridge History of the Novel in French (2021, paperback 2023).