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Research

Academic books and articles. Most are behind paywalls or are prohibitively expensive. I'm happy to send files if you're interested.

Books

Samuel Beckett's Poetry, edited with James Brophy

Cambridge University Press, 2022

'This book will be a classic of Beckett criticism', Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Samuel Beckett and the Second World War

Bloomsbury, 2020 

'An excellent book...a necessary book', Marjorie Perloff

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Beckett and Politics, edited with Helen Bailey

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 

'gathers courageous analyses of performances and adaptations, as well as inquiries into the work's continued political relevance', Erika Mihálycsa

Journal Articles

'Sounding Relevant: The Waste Land’s Centenary', The Journal of the TS Eliot Society, 2023

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‘Thomas MacGreevy’s Combatant Modernism’, Irish University Review, 2022

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‘‘An Icon of Recurrence’: The Waste Land’s Anniversaries’, Essays & Studies, 2022.

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‘Harold Pinter’s Early BBC Roles: Between Tradition and Innovation’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021

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‘Beckett and Political Repetition’, Journal of Beckett Studies, 2021

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‘Harold Pinter’s Transmedial Histories’ (with Jonathan Bignell), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2020

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‘Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy and the Revolution of the Body in Vichy France’, Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020

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‘Samuel Beckett, War Writing and Scatological Pacifism’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 2020

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‘Sourcing Beckett’s Long Observation of the Ray, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, 2019

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‘Donald Davie and Englishness’, Review of English Studies, 2019

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‘A Text Become Provisional: Revisiting The Capital of the Ruins, Journal of Beckett Studies, 2017

Book Chapters

‘Europe’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett Studies, edited by Mark Nixon and Dirk van Hulle, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

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‘The Empty House: Watt's Leopardian Traces’, Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Italian Negotiations, edited by Davide Crosara and Mario Martino, Anthem Press, 2024

 

‘Beckett’s Sense of History in the Age of Catastrophe’, Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe, edited by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Michiko Tsushima and Yoshiki Tajiri, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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‘Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt, in Beckett Beyond the Normal, edited by Seán Kennedy, Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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‘“A new occasion, a new term of relation”: Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot’ in Beckett and Modernism, edited by Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Olga Beloborodova, Palgrave Macmillan

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