PUBLICATIONS

Reader’s Editions

Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett, edited with a preface (London: Faber and Faber, 2010).

Edited Volumes

Beckett and Politics (In progress)

Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, with Katherine Weiss (New York: Palgrave, 2009).

Journal Special Issues

Queer Studies and Ireland, with Anne Mulhall, Sarah McKibben, and Eibhear Walshe, eds. Special issue of the Irish University Review (forthcoming 2013).

Queering Ireland, Special issue of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (forthcoming Fall/Winter 2011).

‘Historicising Beckett’, Special section of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (2005): 21-131.

Articles

‘"Echo's Bones": Samuel Beckett after Yeats' in Marjorie Howes and joseph Valente, eds. Yeats after Words (Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).

‘Samuel Beckett and Irish Writing' in Anthony Uhlmann, ed. Beckett in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010).

'Edmund Spenser, famine memory and the discontents of humanism in Endgame' in Angela Moojani et al, eds. Early Modern beckett, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 24 (Amsterdam: Robopi, forthcoming 2012).

‘“First Love”: Abortion and Infanticide in Beckett and Yeats’ in Erik Tonning and Matthew Feldman, eds. Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 21 (2010): forthcoming.

‘Beckett Publishing in Ireland, 1929-1956’ in Mark Nixon, ed. Publishing Beckett (London: British Library Publishing, 2010): 52-72.

 ‘Ireland/Europe ... Beckett/Beckett.’ In Beckett and Ireland, edited by Seán Kennedy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010: 1-22.

‘“In the street I was lost”: Cultural Dislocation in Beckett’s “The End.”’ In Beckett and Ireland, edited by Seán Kennedy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010: 135-161.

 ‘Beckett in History, Memory, Archive’. In Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, edited by Seán Kennedy and Katherine Weiss, New York: Palgrave, 2009: 1-10.

‘Does Beckett Studies require a Subject? Memory and Mourning in the Texts for Nothing.’ In Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, edited by Seán Kennedy and Katherine Weiss, New York: Palgrave, 2009: 11-29.

‘Samuel Beckett’s Reception in Ireland.’ In Samuel Beckett: an International Reception History, edited by Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman, London, Continuum Press, 2009: 55-74.

 ‘The Beckett country revisited: Beckett, belonging and longing.’ In Ireland: Space, Text, Time, edited by Liam Harte, Yvonne Whelan and Patrick Crotty, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2005: 135-145.

‘Historicising Beckett.’: in Marius Buning et al, eds. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 15, 2005: 21-27.

‘Cultural Memory in Mercier and Camier: The Fate of Noel Lemass.’: in Marius Buning et al, eds. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 15, 2005: 117-131.

‘Beckett reviewing MacGreevy: a reconsideration.’: The Irish University Review, edited by Anne Fogarty, Autumn/Winter 2005: 273-288. Republished (2007) at www.macgreevy.org.

‘"Yellow": Beckett and the performance of ascendancy.’ In New Voices in Irish Criticism 5, edited by Ruth Connolly and Ann Coughlan, Dublin: Four Courts, 2005: 177-186.

‘"The artist who stakes his being is from nowhere": Samuel Beckett and Thomas MacGreevy on the art of Jack B. Yeats.’: Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 14.1, edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans and Bruno Clément, 2004: 61-74. Republished (2007) at www.macgreevy.org.

‘"A lingering dissolution": All that Fall and Protestant fears of engulfment in the Irish Free State.’ Assaph: Studies in the Theatre 17/18, edited by Linda Ben Zvi, 2003: 247-262. Also published in Drawing on Beckett: Portraits, Performances and Cultural Contexts, edited by Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv: Assaph Books Series, 2004: 247-262.

Articles in Progress

‘Beckett and the Big House', in S.E. Gontraski, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Beckett and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, in progress).

‘"too absolute and Ireland haunted":Beckett, MacGreevy and the Irish Catholic nation,' in Susan Schreibman, ed. Thomas MacGreevy (London: Continuum Press, ofrthcoming 2013).

‘"the foetal soul is full grown": Beckett and the politics of Irish fertility' in Sean Kennedy, ed. Beckett and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in progress).

Reviews/Notes

Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality, by Eric Levy. In The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Concordia University: forthcoming.

A Samuel Beckett Companion edited by S.E. Gontarski. In James Joyce Literary Survey, University of Miami, 2010: forthcoming.

 Joyce’s Knowhow/Beckett’s Nohow: Manuscript Genetics, by Dirk Van Hulle. In The Samuel Beckett Circle, Spring 2010, vol. 33.1: 18-19.

‘Dublin.’ (Dictionary entry commissioned by Marie-Claude Hubert, ed. Le Dictionnaire Samuel Beckett, forthcoming 2010).

‘Samuel Beckett: Reception Irlandaise.’ (Dictionary entry commissioned by Marie-Claude Hubert, ed. Le Dictionnaire Samuel Beckett, for thcoming 2010).

Irish Modernism at Trinity. In The Samuel Beckett Circle, Spring 2008 31.1: 12-13.

Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays on Modern Irish Writing edited by Neil Samells. In The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 31.2, Fall 2005: 75-6.

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Matthew Campbell. In The Irish University Review 35.1, Dublin: Spring/Summer 2005: 235-9.

In Green and Red: The Lives of Frank Ryan by Adrian Hoar. In Review of Postgraduate Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway: 2005: 96-99.

‘A Note on Mr. Nidder.’: J ournal of Beckett Studies 13.1, edited by S.E. Gontarski, 2004: 127-29.

George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30 by Nicholas Allen. In The Irish Literary Supplement, Boston: Spring 2004: 23.

The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923 by Peter Hart. In Review of Postgraduate Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004: 61-3.

Reviews of Published Work

“an excellent and very useful overview and analysis of the critical discourse on Beckett and Ireland.” Mark Nixon, “Trueborn Jackeen: How Beckett has been reclaimed for his homeland,” Times Literary Supplement (July 23rd 2010): 9.

“A stimulating collection of essays (Beckett and Ireland) explores the importance of Samuel Beckett’s Anglo-Irish heritage to his work.” Gerald Dawe, “An Incurable Condition,” Irish Times (June 12th 2010).

“[Kennedy’s work is] provocative in the positive sense that it compels the reader towards radical re-reading.” Gerry Dukes, “An Elegant Portrait of One of Our Greatest Playwrights,” The Irish Independent (A pril 17th 2004), 14.


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