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Nicholas Watson (born July 9, 1977) is a social entrepreneur based in Pennsylvania, United States.

He was previously a producer and writer in film and television. He co-founded the New Haven Stuckist art group.

Social enterprise career

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Nicholas Watson has worked in social enterprise development in the United States since 2009. He previously held the position of Vice President for Social Enterprise at Housing Works in New York City. He was also the founding Director of Social Enterprise at Project H.O.M.E. in Philadelphia.[1]

Life and art

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Left to right: Charles Thomson, Nicholas Watson, Terry Marks, Marisa Shepherd, Jesse Richards and Catherine Chow in Marks' New York apartment in 2001.

Nicholas Watson has worked on films with Jesse Richards since 1997.[2] In 2001, Watson co-founded the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Stuckism art movement with Richards.[3] Stuckism was started in Britain by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999. Watson said, "We create art in order to create an emotional connection. There's such a rampant element of falseness in [conceptual] artwork. I'm very comfortable saying most of it is not for real."[4]

He was part of the group that founded and ran the Stuckism International Centre USA, an art gallery in New Haven. He said the organization attracted popular support, but had been unable to gain official backing.[4] His film with Richards, Blackout, was premiered at the event Stuck Films at the New Haven Stuckism International Center in 2002.[5][6] In 2003, he co-organized the Stuckism International Protest Show against the Iraq War, though the theme concentrated not so much on anti-war images as international artistic co-operation with works from the United States, Germany, Brazil and England.[4] One work showed a bust of President George W. Bush with a swastika behind it.[4]

On March 21, 2003, the Stuckists held a "clown trial of President Bush" on the steps of the U.S. District courthouse, Church Street, New Haven.[7] Watson issued a press release for the event, stating that the event was because the double talk of leaders had made clowns out of people, and that a dummy of the President in chains wearing an orange Camp X jumpsuit would be tried by a clown prosecutor, a clown defense and a clown judge.[7] Watson said, "Charges include planning crimes against humanity outside the sanction of international law. Our leader has reduced himself to the same level as those whose terrorist actions he condemns."[7]

Jesse Richards and Nicholas Watson. Shooting at the Moon. A still from an early Super-8 remodernist film.

He was associated with the Remodernist Film group. His film Shooting at the Moon, co-directed with Stuckist and Remodernist photographer and filmmaker Jesse Richards is one of the first works of Remodernist film. Shooting at the Moon premiered at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in November 2003. On March 8, 2008 the film made its London premiere at Horse Hospital during their Flixation Underground Cinema event.

Watson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is the bassist for South Brooklyn Art Rock band Battle of the Camel and a Member of the Glue Stick Collective, a group of artists associated with Clean and Humble Recordings.

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Nicholas Watson

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Nicholas Watson is a British-Canadian-American medieval literary scholar known for his influential contributions to the study of late medieval English literature, vernacular theology, mysticism, and religious culture. He is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University, where his research spans intellectual history, visionary writing, hagiography, medieval Latin, the French of England, magic, and women's literary culture in the Middle Ages. Watson's scholarship has shaped modern understanding of medieval religious texts and their socio-cultural contexts through major publications including his monograph Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (1991), the co-edited anthology The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520 (1999), and critical editions such as The Writings of Julian of Norwich (2006) and John of Morigny, Liber florum celestis doctrine / The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching (2015). His widely cited 1995 article “Censorship and Cultural Change in Late-Medieval England: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel’s Constitutions of 1409” remains a foundational text in debates about heresy, translation, and ecclesiastical control over vernacular writing. More recent work includes his monograph Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation (2022). He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and holds citizenship in Britain, Canada, and the United States.

Early life

Birth and background

Nicholas Watson was born and grew up in the United Kingdom in a family of musicians and teachers. He was raised in Winchester, England.) He later emigrated, first to Canada, then to the United States.

Early interests

Limited details are available on Watson's early interests prior to his university education. His family background in music and teaching may have influenced his scholarly path, though no specific pre-academic pursuits are documented in available sources.

Film and television career

Nicholas Watson, the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University, has no documented career in film or television. His professional work focuses exclusively on medieval literary scholarship, including research in late medieval English literature, vernacular theology, mysticism, and related fields. Claims of involvement in independent filmmaking, production roles, or related credits (such as in Shooting at the Moon or various 2000s TV projects) pertain to a different individual with the same name. No documented involvement in the Stuckist art movement or related activities exists for Nicholas Watson, the medieval literary scholar and Harvard professor. The section's content pertains to a different individual of the same name.

Social entrepreneurship

No information indicates that Nicholas Watson, the medieval literary scholar and Harvard professor, is involved in social entrepreneurship or serves in leadership roles at organizations such as Baker Industries. A separate individual named Nicholas Watson (often referred to as Nic Watson) serves as President of Baker Industries, a nonprofit workforce development organization in Pennsylvania. This section previously contained information about the other Nicholas Watson, which has been removed for accuracy.

Personal life

Residence and other details

Little verified information is publicly available regarding Nicholas Watson's specific personal residence or other non-professional details. He is professionally affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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