New Publication: ‘Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction’
Dr. James Baxter is delighted to announce the publication of his first full-length monograph, Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction, which has been released as part of Palgrave’s series ‘New…Read More >
Conference – Inside and Outside Modernism: An Anatomy of 1922 and its Cultures
“James Joyce is quite wrong headed. Anyhow, with his wilfulness, he has made novel reading into a fair imitation of penal servitude…” (ARNOLD BENNETT on ULYSSES) Keynote Speakers: Professor Patrick Collier (Ball…Read More >
Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar
The Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that the 32. Beckett Research Seminar will take place on Saturday, 6 November 2021. The event will…Read More >
Beckett Week 2021 (4-6 November 2021)
We are delighted to announce that our annual Beckett Week will take in November at Minghella Studies on the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading. Beckett Week events will…Read More >
Forthcoming Publication: ‘Transdisciplinary Beckett’ by Lucy Jeffery
We are delighted to announce that Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process will be published by ibidem-Verlag in November 2021. In this monograph, Lucy Jeffery, Postdoctoral Research…Read More >
Recently Published: An interview with the editors of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’
In a recently published interview in The Modernist Review, Jonathan McAllister, of the University of Cambridge, discusses the recent publication of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) with…Read More >
Review: Beckett Brunch 2021 by Emma Keanie
Emma Keanie, a postgraduate researcher in the Department of English at the University of Reading, reviews the Beckett Brunch 2021 that took place last month on the 24th April. Following…Read More >
Beckett & Italy, 24-26 May 2021
We are delighted to share with you the brilliant programme of the second Beckett & Italy conference which will be held ‘virtually’ in Rome on 24-26 May 2021. The full…Read More >