Editorial Board

Editor: Feargal Whelan

Feargal Whelan is a Visiting Research Fellow and occasional lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He has published and presented widely on the works of Samuel Beckett and on twentieth century Irish drama. He collaborates regularly with Mouth on Fire theatre company on productions, and has also scripted and contributed to a number of television documentaries. Included in his publications are chapters in the collections Beckett and Modernism, Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland, The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft, Beckett and Technology, and The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016) among others. He previously edited The Beckett Circle, the then official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society.

Associate Editor: Patrick Bixby

Patrick Bixby is past President of the Samuel Beckett Society and Foundation Professor of Humanities at Arizona State University, where he hosted the organization’s inaugural conference in 2015. He has lectured and written extensively on the Irish writer, including in his monographs Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel and Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life. His recent books, which range across the fields of modernist studies, Irish studies, and mobility studies, include: License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport, Nietzsche and Irish Modernism, Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy, and, with Gregory Castle, A History of Irish Modernism. He also serves as Chair of the Advisory Board for the Letters of Samuel Beckett project at Emory University.

Performance Reviews: Celia Graham-Dixon

Celia Graham-Dixon studied English and History of Art at the University of Leeds and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam before submitting her PhD in Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading where she was the recipient of the Mary Bryden Studentship in Beckett Studies. Her research, which she has presented widely at national and international conferences, focuses on Samuel Beckett’s works for television, feminist aesthetics, affect and ethics and has been published in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui and as part of De Gruyter’s Culture and Conflict series. With a background in academic art publishing and arts editorial, she has since held teaching positions at the University of Reading, UCL and Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Book Reviews: Amanda Dennis

Amanda Dennis is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The American University of Paris, where she also co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing. She is the author of Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and the novel, Her Here (Bellevue Literary Press, 2021). She recently co-edited a special issue of JOBS, Beckett and the Anthropocene, and the volume, Beckett and the Nonhuman, a special issue of SBT/A. Now based in Paris, she has held fellowships and visiting lectureships in France, the US, the UK, and Spain.