The School of English at Trinity College Dublin has announced that it will be hosting Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell as the inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows this coming academic year, 2022-23. This scheme is a collaboration with the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading, which has pioneered a series of Creative Fellowships since 2017. Through…
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The Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading is delighted to invite applications for the Katharine Worth travel bursary, in honour of the renowned Beckett scholar, Professor Katharine Worth, who donated her Beckett archive to the University of Reading. The archive includes a beautifully detailed maquette by Peter Snow of a version of his stage design…
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The latest edition of The Beckett Circle features a commentary piece by renowned critic Angela Moorjani on the issues surrounding gender cross-casting in Beckett’s productions, prompted by Eleanor Green’s excellent piece in our last issue. Doug Atkinson provides a thoughtful review essay on the completion of Gare St Lazare’s mammoth engagement with How it is…
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Applications are invited for a part-time (0.8FTE) Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work with Professor Dirk Van Hulle and his Co-Investigator on the project ‘Editing Beckett: Towards a Bilingual Digital Genetic Edition of Samuel Beckett’s Works’. This post will be fixed-term until 28 February 2025, and it is anticipated that the appointee will start on 1…
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The Samuel Beckett Society is committed to strengthening the field of Beckett Studies by supporting new scholarship from early career researchers. We would like to invite postgraduate researchers and those within eight years of submitting their PhDs to apply for a Ruby Cohn Travel Bursary to support their attendance at the Beckett and Poetry/Beckett &…
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Oxford University Press has just published a new monograph by Marco Bernini. Titled Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives, the author argues ‘that Samuel Beckett’s narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology’ and that ‘Beckett pioneered a…
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The Chinese translation of the first volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett has been published in two volumes in Dec. 2021 by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (HLAPH), Changsha City, the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese translation is the first version rendered outside of Western Europe. The translator Bo Cao, a professor…
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New York’s ReelAbilities film festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. The weeklong festival is renowned for its wide-ranging international film selection, riveting conversations, and performances, presented annually in dozens of venues across the New York…
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In the true Beckett spirit of ‘going on’ despite everything, ‘Samuel Beckett and Nature’, originally planned to take place in 2020 by James Martell and his crew at Lyon College, will finally see the light of day on October 7-9 of this year. The event will feature both original keynote speakers, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of…
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The latest publciation in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett series is titled Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio and comes from the University of Reading’s Conor Carville. It is a welcome intervention on such a lightly studied work and promises to encourage further research in the area. As the publisher’s note asserts: ‘Samuel Beckett’s 1976…
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