Diane Watt FLSW is a British medievalist, currently Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey.
She previously held a personal chair at Aberystwyth University, where she was Deputy Director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).
The Lesbian Premodern, which she co-edited with Noreen Giffney and Michelle M. Sauer[7] was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Anthology category.
[8] Watt was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship[Note 1] in 2016 for her project "Women's Literary Culture Before the Conquest".
[9] From 2015-2017 she led the Leverhulme-funded international research network, "Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon".