MEDIA AND TALKS
DOCUMENTARIES
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The Battle of the Brows, BBC Radio 4, Archive Hour, 22 October 2022
Conception; Historical consultant; Interviewee
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A documentary exploring the 'cultural war' among British intellectuals during radio's first 50 years. The programme ties into the centenary of the BBC and 1922 as an important date in the history of Modernism.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dd8y
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Beckett's Last Tapes, BBC Radio 4, Archive Hour, August 2019

Interviewee
An hour-long documentary on Samuel Beckett's life and archives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007k9b
TALKS
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School Talks
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‘War and the Everyday in Waiting for Godot’, The Oratory School, November 2021
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Academic Keynotes/Invited Speaker
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'The Waste Land's Anniversaries', The Waste Land Centenary event, University of Oxford, 8 June 2022
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'Beckett in Confinement: A Roundtable', Samuel Beckett Festival, Liverpool, 8 May 2022
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Contributor, Beckett Brunch Virtual Roundtable, Trinity College Dublin, April 2021.
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‘War and the Everyday in Waiting for Godot’, Beckett International Foundation Seminar, University of Reading, 2019.
‘P.N. Review 1975-1977’, Texts and Archive lecture series, University of Reading, 2019.
‘“Anthropomorphic Insolence”: Watt and the Fiction of History’, EAC Department Keynote, University of Manchester, 2017.
‘Beckett Publishing/Publishing Beckett: Beckett in the Magazines’, Modernist Magazines Symposium, University of Reading, 2015.
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Academic Conference Papers
'The Women who Shaped Beckett's War', Lost Bodies Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, 7-8 July, 2022
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‘Romantic Nothingness: Yeats and Leopardi in Beckett’s ur-Watt’, Beckett and Italy, University of Reading, 2019.
‘Holding the Centre: Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill and the Aftermath of Modernism’, Troublesome Modernisms, British Association of Modernist Studies, London, 2019.
‘Beckett and a Pretty Pater for Pétain’, Beckett and Translation, 5th International Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society University of Almería, 2019.
‘Beckett and the Inhumanity of History’, Samuel Beckett and the Non-Human, VUB, Brussels, 2019.
‘PN Review 1975-1977’, co-presented with Steven Matthews, Carcanet Press Symposium, University of Manchester, 2019.
‘The Political Turn in Beckett Studies and Beyond’, co-presented with Helen Bailey, Historicising Modernism, University of York, 2018.
‘Maths and Memory in Beckett’s The Way’, Modern Literature and Maths, University of Manchester, 2018.
‘Becket’s Trilogy and the Revolution of the Body in Vichy France’, The Human Body and World War Two, University of Oxford, 2018.
‘“In one’s little notebook”: Watt and the Fiction of History’, Beckett Beyond the Normal, 3rd International Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society, Queen Mary’s University, Halifax, 2017.
‘On ‘Long Observation of the Ray’’, DRAFF, Trinity College Dublin, 2016.
‘Beckett and Eliot’, Beckett and Modernism, 2nd International Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society, University of Antwerp, 2016.
‘“In this universe become provisional”: Beckett in Saint-Lô’, Beckett and Europe, University of Reading, 2015.
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