This week, on the 13th April 2021, would have marked the 115th birthday of Samuel Beckett. The writer was notoriously reluctant to celebrate the annual event, evident in the many…Read More >
Recordings with Eimear McBride
To celebrate the recent publication of Eimear McBride’s Mouthpieces by Faber & Faber, we are taking a look back on McBride’s journey as the Samuel Beckett Research Centre’s Inaugural Creative…Read More >
Symposia Series: How It Is by Samuel Beckett Symposium
Gare St. Lazare Ireland (GSLI) and The Samuel Beckett Centre at University of Reading teamed up to present a third How It Is Symposium on the 5th March 2021. The…Read More >
Announcement: Creative Fellows 2020-21
The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Creative Fellows 2020-21: Duncan Campbell and Hannah Khalil. Duncan Campbell is…Read More >
Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride
We are delighted to announce that Eimear McBride’s three short, characteristically powerful and disorientating texts depicting a fragmentary female experience, has been published in one collection, Mouthpieces, earlier this month….Read More >
Beckett and War: recently published
William Davies, Beckett Research Centre Post-Doctoral Fellow has recently published a book and two articles on Beckett and his war writing. ‘Crawling in the Flanders mud’: Samuel Beckett, war writing…Read More >
Recently published: Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes
Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes, edited by Steven Matthews, Co-Director of The Samuel Beckett Research Centre, and Matthew Feldman, is a major new Beckett text that reveals major aspects of Beckett’s philosophical thought…Read More >
Beckett and Mediality: recently published articles
Members of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre have recently published a number of articles on Beckett and intermediality and transmediality. Mark Nixon, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, was one…Read More >
2020 Publications Review
Members of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre published a number of journal articles, chapters and books in 2020. Books Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes, edited by Steven Matthews, Co-Director of The Samuel…Read More >
‘Beckett’s Intermedial Ecosystems’ available for free download until 5th February
‘Beckett’s Intermedial Ecosystems’ by Anna McMullan is free to download from Cambridge University Press until 5th February at the following URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/becketts-intermedial-ecosystems/80129EE23DA811CA550E66BA405963D3# “Beckett’s closed space texts combine qualities of confined…Read More >