He does extensive research for each article he writes. Currently, he's at work on an essay on the Kosovo War and has read thousands of pages of material on the conflict. I'm interested in the discrepancy between appearance and reality and why people believe what they do. If you start reading about the Balkans, you realize that people start believing things contrary to reality. Away from the political arena, Watson also is an accomplished poet, whose work has been published in literary magazines such as Black Mesa Review, Nimrod and Icarus .
Poetry is a place where ambivalence can live.
Frank Wiswall roots his research and writing firmly in the past. After earning a master's degree from Scotland's University of St. Andrews, Wiswall has continued to focus his academic and authorial attentions on the Middle Ages and the phenomenon of child kings. It's interested me since graduate school. Writing and research are passions that keeps him in good standing with his students as well. I like to be able to remind students what the whole process of learning is about and that it's something I still experience.