Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK. A specialist on the life and work of the novelist Marcel Proust, he has published comparative work on a range of twentieth-century authors. His publications on Proust, in English and French, have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Farsi, and German. He is editor of the landmark volume The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (2021) and, with Brian Nelson, co-editor of the Oxford World's Classics translation of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.