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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >