Prestigious fellowship award

Rob Watt of the Department of English has been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study at London University for 2004-5.

This award, rarely conferred on UK scholars, recognises Rob as the country's leading authority on computer concordancing. He will use the Fellowship to co-edit the complete works of the major 17th-century dramatist John Ford with a team led by Professor Brian Vickers and direct work on the Ford Concordance.

Rob said, "After spending much of my time in recent years helping to shape the University's e-learning and IT developments, I am looking forward to beginning an exciting new collaborative research project in English Studies. John Ford was one of the major writers after Shakespeare, yet there has never been a complete edition of his works. I am delighted to have been asked to join the international team co-editing Ford and offered a London Fellowship to do so."