Contact Information

Office: 4140 JFSB

Phone: 422-1439

Email: jarica_watts@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

ENGL 251
MWF 8:00-8:50
B030 JFSB

ENGL 251
MWF 9:00-9:50
154 HRCB

ENGL 295
MWF 10:00-10:50
154 HRCB


Student Consultations:
By appointment only

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Jarica Watts holds a Ph.D. in British and American Literature from the University of Utah. She specializes in twentieth-century British literature, postcolonial literature and theory, and minority discourses. Jarica has published work on Chinua Achebe and Zadie Smith, and she is the editor of the book collection, Here Lies Lalo, which brings into the prominence the works of Chicano poet Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado. Jarica has a three-year-old daughter and a ten-year-old cat; she a competitive runner and a casual scuba diver, and she lives with her family in Lehi. Publications: “We are divided people, aren’t we?” The Politics of Multicultural Language and Dialect Crossing In Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. Textual Practice, 2011 (forthcoming). Here Lies Lalo: The Selected Works of Abelardo Delgado. Houston: Arte Público, 2011. (Book). “‘He does not understand our customs’: Narrating Orality and Empire in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.1 (2010). 65-75.

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Utah (2011)
M.A., Wake Forest University (2005)
B.A., Westminster College (2002)

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