RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research looks at Beckett’s interest in and use of classical music and visual arts. I have recently compiled a catalogue for the audio-visual materials held at the Beckett Archive in Reading. I am also interested in the work of Harold Pinter, Ezra Pound, and Marguerite Duras.

PUBLICATIONS

1. "Beckett’s Technological Experimentation on Radio". Beckett and Technology. Edited by Mark Nixon, Galina Kiryushina, and Einat Adar. Edinburgh UP, 2021.
2. "Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts". The Oxford Companion to Samuel Beckett. Edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. Oxford UP, 2020.
3. “'What’s that music? Did you turn the radio on?' Music in Ingeborg Bachmann’s radio plays. Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics. Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst. Lexington Books, 2020.
4. "Pinter as Poet, Pinter as Politician". Pinter Review . 2020 (in press).
5. "An Interview with Tim Parkinson". Journal of Beckett Studies. 2020 (in press).
6. "Samuel Beckett’s use of color in The Novellas: Green". 2020 (in press).
7. "Samuel Beckett’s Influence on Harold Pinter’s Radio Drama". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 2020 (in press).
8. "Ezra Pound and Constantin Brancusi: Sculptural Form and the Struggle to 'make it cohere'". Word & Image. 2020 (in press).
9. "Music in Samuel Beckett’s radio play Embers: ‘I shouldn’t be hearing that!’". Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 16.2. 2018, pp.173-184.
10. "Samuel Beckett’s brush with the other Mitchell: Painterly Techniques in ‘One Evening'". Journal of Beckett Studies, 27.2. 2018, pp. 175-192.
11. "Samuel Beckett’s use of color in Company: Blue". Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 20. 4. 2018, pp. 507-527.
12. "Bridging Music and Language in Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Trio and Nacht und Träume". Durham Postgraduate English Journal, 32. Spring, 2016.

REVIEWS

1. "Michael Roth’s Imagination Dead Imagine, Prague, 13 September 2018". Journal of Beckett Studies, 28.2. 2019, pp. 255-259.
2. "Beckett and Collaboration: A Review of Words and Music for the Beckett Chamber Music Series". Journal of Beckett Studies, 28.1. 2019, 113-124.
3. "Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art, eds. Robert Reginio, David Houston Jones and Katherine Weiss Review". Journal of Beckett Studies, 27.2. 2018, 270-274.
4. "Walking on Tiptoe: Colin Pink’s Acrobats of Sound". ACUMEN, 89. September, 2017.
5. "Hearts remote, yet not asunder". ACUMEN, 87. January, 2017.
6. "Beckett Week at Reading: Beckett & Politics Conference". The Beckett Circle. Autumn, 2016.
7. "Off to the printmakers with Heidi Williamson". ACUMEN, 86. September, 2016.
8. "Ut picture poesis for Maureen Duffy". ACUMEN, 85. May, 2016.
9. "Look what’s become of the 'embryonic little spark'”. ACUMEN, 84. January, 2016.
10. "The persistent fragility of memory". ACUMEN, 80. September, 2014.
11. "Little poems 'cut off from the rest of language’". ACUMEN, 79. May, 2014.
12. "Nocturnes at Nohant". ACUMEN, 78. January, 2014.

For classical and jazz music reviews, search for ‘Lucy Jeffery’ on www.seenandheard-international.com.

TALKS

As well as organising conferences and workshops in Reading and Aberystwyth, I have delivered papers on Beckett and Pinter internationally.

1. "Pinter’s Poetry and American Politics". Midwest Modernist Language Association, Chicago, November 14, 2019.
2. "Tracing Digital Legacies and the (Im)Materiality of Death in the Performance User Not Found". The Materiality of Death: On the Trail of Grave Goods (Past, Present and Future), British Museum, London, May 31, 2019.
3. "Going Green: An Ecocritical Reading of Beckett’s Landscapes in the Novellas". Beckett International Foundation Seminar, University of Reading, November 24, 2018.
4. “'[N]ot a sound': Samuel Beckett’s influence on Harold Pinter’s Landscape". Pinter on Film, Television and Radio, British Library, London, September 19-20, 2018.
5. "Words and Music 'or some other trouble'". Beckett and Technology, Charles University, Prague, September 13-15, 2018.
6. "Beckett and Colour: A Negative Optimism". Influences, Intersections, Interactions, Charles University, Prague, September 8-9, 2017.
7. "The 'Dark lightens' when in Company: Painterly Technique in Beckett’s Late Style". Modernist Life, BAMS Birmingham University, June 29 – 1 July 1, 2017.
8. "A note on Beckett’s decomposition". FTT Departmental Research Presentations, University of Reading, November 30, 2016.
9. "Cheese and Biscuits: Beckett’s Musical Monadology". DRAFF, Trinity College Dublin, August 5-6, 2016.
10. "Watt about Samuel Beckett’s Artistic Legacy?" Altered States: Postgraduate Conference, MONC Swansea University, October 9, 2015.
11. "Memory in Samuel Beckett and Geneviève Asse’s 'blue celeste''’. Arts and Humanities research presentations, Swansea University, September 2015.
12. "Score to Text: Musical Form in Samuel Beckett’s Late TV-Plays: Ghost Trio and Nacht und Träume’". Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies, Durham University, July 2, 2015.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

I have designed several websites showcasing the impact of research projects and have lectured in literature and theatre at the universities of Swansea and Reading. At Reading, I led the Beckett Reading Group from 2017-19. I was also the postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC funded project ‘User Not Found: Social Media Technology in Immersive Performance’ and contributed to ‘Staging Beckett’.