As part of our Talking Beckett series, we are delighted to release recordings from the Beckett Forum. The Beckett Forum is a postgraduate run group that meets frequently throughout each…Read More >
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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 >
Samuel Beckett’s 115th Birthday
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 >