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Recent recognition of the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº includes an EarthLab Innovation Grant, the Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association and honorable recognition mention from the American Society for Theatre Research. ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôºprofessor Richard Watts and team awarded EarthLab Innovation Grant Richard Watts, ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôºassociate professor of French, is part of an interdisciplinary team from the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôºthat received an EarthLab Innovation Grant to support their collaborative project, “Life in Spite of It All: Water, Wetlands, and Reclamation in…

There is more to literature than the text itself. Anything that surrounds the text — from the cover to chapter headings and author bios — is known as paratext. This is what transforms text into a book.   Richard Watts’s research focuses on this under-examined aspect of literature. In this episode, Watts, an associate professor of French at the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº, explains how everything we read comes with accompanying discourse. Decisions have already been made about how readers should…