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). She was Charles A. Owen Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut in 2005.[1] She was awarded a Snell Exhibition to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford,[2] and was awarded her DPhil in English Literature in 1993. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[3]