{"id":457,"date":"2019-11-15T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett-alternative\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2019-12-07T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:30:45","slug":"h-bailey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett-alternative\/about\/people\/h-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-457\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-457-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-457-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-457-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h1 style=\"text-align: left\">DR HELEN BAILEY<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left\">Post-doctoral Centre Fellow<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"mailto:helen.bailey@reading.ac.uk\">helen.bailey@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>RESPONSIBILITIES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Beckett Research Centre Communications Officer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-457-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-457-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-459\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett-alternative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/Unorganized\/HelenBailey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-457-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-457-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-457-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-457-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/h3>\n<p>My research explores the connection between music and the idea of \"spirit\" in modern and contemporary literature, especially in Beckett. I am currently preparing a monograph on the topic, entitled: <em>More Nearly Pure Spirit: Beckett, Music and Spirituality <\/em>. My wider research interests include performance poetry, narrative theory, and contemporary politics in literature.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>PUBLICATIONS<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>\"Spirit Into Sound: Samuel Beckett's Phenomenology of Music\"<\/strong>. <em>Routledge Companion to Music and Modern<\/em> <em>Literature<\/em>. Routledge, in progress.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Beckett and Politics<\/strong>. <\/em>Co-edited with William Davies. Palgrave, 2020 (forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"'Too clumsily explicit': Beckett's excised celestial music\"<\/strong>. <em>Samuel Beckett Today \/ Aujourd'hui, <\/em>. Edited by James Little, Georgina Nugent-Folen, Emilie Morin and Mark Nixon. 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Two Poetries?: a re-examination of the poetry divide in 1970s Britain\"<\/strong>. <em>The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Edited by Peter Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Bernard Spencer and Lawrence Durrell: Island Influences\"<\/strong>. Edited by Peter Robinson. Shearsman Books, 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>TALKS<\/h3>\n<p>I have delivered papers and talks on Beckett at international conferences and seminars, including Dublin, London, Antwerp, San Diego, Nottingham, Reading, Bergen and Oxford. I have also co-organised two international conferences in Reading: the \"Beckett &amp; Europe\" Postgraduate and Early Careers conference (2015) and the \"Beckett and Politics\" conference (2016).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>\"The Margins of a Discourse: Jazz Poetry, Music and the \u2018Space Between\u2019\"<\/strong>. Music and Literature: Innovations, Intersections and Interpretations Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"The Political Turn in Beckett Studies and Beyond\"<\/strong>. Co-presented with William Davies. Historicizing Modernism Conference, University of York, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Milton, Maths and Music: Beckett\u2019s Harmony of Numbers\"<\/strong>. Modernism and Maths Conference, University of Manchester, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"(En)gendering Spirit: Beckett's Eve\/Mary Sirens\"<\/strong>. Beckett and Politics Conference, University of Reading, November 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"'Too clumsily explicit': Beckett's excised celestial music\"<\/strong>. DRAFF Conference, Trinity College Dublin, August 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c\u2018A whisper of that final music\u2019 in Beckett\u2019s <em style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Worstward Ho<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\"><strong>\u201d<\/strong>. Samuel Beckett: Performance \/ Art \/ Writing Conference, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\"><strong>\u201c'Unheard of musical relations': Beckett\u2019s Modernist aesthetics of sex\"<\/strong>. Beckett and Modernism Conference, Antwerp, 2016.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c\u2018music Music MUSIC\u2019: Carnal Frivolity and the Censor in Beckett\u2019s Early Works\u201d<\/strong>. Beckett and Vice International Conference, San Diego, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cBetter Abort: Rhythmic Totality and an Aesthetics of Spirit in Samuel Beckett\u2019s <em>Worstward Ho<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>. Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics Conference, University of Nottingham, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cEx(or)cised Angels: Unheard Music and Suppressed Spirituality in Beckett's <em>Watt<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>. Beckett International Foundation Annual Research Seminar, University of Reading, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c\u2018Damning the life of the body on earth\u2019: Samuel Beckett's Proustian music\u201d<\/strong>. Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse Conference, University of Bergen, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c\u2018Plane of white music\u2019: Samuel Beckett's ethereal sounds\u201d<\/strong>. Debts and Legacies Postgraduate Symposium, University of Oxford, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cBernard Spencer and Lawrence Durrell\u201d<\/strong>. Bernard Spencer Centenary Conference, University of Reading, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>OTHER ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\n<p>As part of a widening participation initiative with a charity, I teach university-style courses on music and literature to school pupils from disadvantaged and low-participation schools across the Midlands. I am also a tutor for an Access to HE course in the Midlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-457-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR HELEN BAILEY Post-doctoral Centre Fellow helen.bailey@reading.ac.uk &nbsp; RESPONSIBILITIES Beckett Research Centre Communications Officer RESEARCH INTERESTS My research explores the connection between music and the idea of &#8220;spirit&#8221; in modern&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#98;&#101;&#99;&#107;&#101;&#116;&#116;&#45;&#97;&#108;&#116;&#101;&#114;&#110;&#97;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#101;&#47;&#97;&#98;&#111;&#117;&#116;&#47;&#112;&#101;&#111;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#47;&#104;&#45;&#98;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#101;&#121;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":448,"parent":221,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-457","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>People - Alternative Beckett<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People - Alternative Beckett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DR HELEN BAILEY Post-doctoral Centre Fellow helen.bailey@reading.ac.uk &nbsp; 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