Former Postgraduate Projects

2019

• Giovanna Vincenti: Psycho-pathologies in James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
• Ekaterina Gosteva: ‘Metaphysical Comedy: Beckett and Dostoevsky’

2018

• Will Davies: Beckett and Posthumanism
• Niamh Bowe: Early Phenomenology and the aesthetics of suffering in Samuel Beckett's non-prose work.
  Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and part of the University of Reading's Collections-Based Research programme.
• Michaela Bariselli: ‘Beckett’s Philosophy of Humour’.
• Lucy Jeffery: ‘Beckett: Art, Music and the Creative Process’.

2016

• Matthew McFrederick: A Historiography of London Productions of Samuel Beckett's Drama.
  Part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Staging Beckett project.

2014

• Helen Bailey: Music and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Beckett.
  Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

2013

• Sarah-Jane Scaife: The Culturally Inscribed Body and Spaces of Performance in Samuel Beckett's Theatre

2010

• Tatyana Hramova: ‘The Poetics of Names in Samuel Beckett’s Texts’ (AHRC PhD studentship).