NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Chris Ackerley is Professor and former HOD of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His speciality is annotation, especially of Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett. Recent works include Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy (2nd. ed. 2004), Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt (2005), and with S. E. Gontarski the Grove Press and Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (2004 & 2006).

Elizabeth Barry is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on Samuel Beckett in Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui and Irish Studies Review, and her monograph, Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché, appeared with Palgrave Macmillan in September 2006. She has also published book chapters on the dramatists Jean Genet, Roy Williams and Sarah Kane.

Jackie Blackman is a Government of Ireland scholar and has lectured on Beckett at Trinity College Dublin. In 2006 she was dramaturge for a centenary production of Endgame at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin. She gave the inaugural lecture for the Annual Beckett Lecture Series in Tel Aviv University (2007) and her essay “Beckett Judaizing Beckett” was awarded second place in the IFTR New Scholar’s prize, 2007.

John Bolin is writing a D.Phil. thesis on Beckett’s novels and early aesthetic theory. He is a student at Exeter College, Oxford University.

Gregory Byala has recently completed his doctoral work at Yale University with a dissertation entitled Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Muhlenberg College where he teaches courses on twentieth-century literature.

María José Carrera is Lecturer in English Philology at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Research interests include Beckett’s short prose texts and manuscript editing.

Anthony Cordingley teaches in l’Institut du Monde Anglophone at l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. He is completing a PhD from the University of Sydney on Samuel Beckett’s philosophical and literary education, with a special focus on Comment c’est/How It Is.

Thomas Cousineau, Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland, has recently retired as the editor of The Beckett Circle/Le Cercle de Beckett. Notes on Contributors

His latest book is Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2008).

Anne Cousseau est Maître de Conférences en Littérature française à l’Université Nancy 2. Auteur de plusieurs articles et communications sur Marguerite Duras, elle a également publié Poétique de l’enfance dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Duras (Droz, 1997) et co-édité les actes du colloque Marguerite Duras : Marges et transgressions (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2006). Ses champs de recherche portent par ailleurs sur le roman contemporain, et l’écriture de l’enfance.

Andrew Eastham specializes in Victorian Aestheticism, Modernism and Contemporary literature. He has recently written articles on Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Allan Hollinghurst. The current essay is part of a wider project on “Literary Modernity and the Concept of Irony,” stretching from Pater to Hollinghurst. He is also writing a book on Aestheticism and Theatricality: from Pater to Eliot.

Marion Fries-Dieckmann is lecturer in the English Department of the University of Düsseldorf. She is co-editor of the volume Der unbekannte Beckett. Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Kultur (2005). Her recently published PhD thesis – Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Sprache (2007) – is on the German translations of Beckett’s drama.

Maximilian de Gaynesford is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Reading and author of I: The Meaning of the First Person Term (OUP, 2006), Hilary Putnam (McGill-Queens, 2006) and John McDowell (Polity, 2004) as well as of various articles on the philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.

Karine Germoni is Professeur agrégée of French literature, and teaches twentieth century French Literature at the Université de Provence. She is currently completing her doctorat “Ecarts, Jeux et Enjeux de la ponctuation beckettienne.” She has already published several articles on Beckett in The Journal of Beckett Studies and SBT/A.

Guillaume Gesvret est étudiant en Lettres Modernes à l’Université Paris 7- Denis Diderot. Il termine sous la direction d’Evelyne Grossman un mémoire de Master 2 intitulé: “L’écriture du corps spectral dans Mal vu mal dit, Worstward Ho, Quad et ...que nuages... de Samuel Beckett.”

David A. Hatch teaches British Literature and Advanced Writing at Brigham Young University. His recent scholarship includes essays on Samuel Beckett’s 426