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1 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His research has focused on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in modernist and contemporary writing. He is the author of several books, including Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot and Endgame: A Reader s Guide to Essential Criticism (2003, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), and Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism, (2009, London: Continuum). His current book project (to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2013) is entitled Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. He is the editor of Textual Practice. Llewellyn Brown is a teacher of literature at the Lycée International of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and a tutor at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense. His research, oriented by Lacanian psychoanalysis, is centred on 20 th Century French literature. Published works: Figures du mensonge littéraire: essais sur l écriture au XX e siècle (2005, Paris: L Harmattan); L Esthétique du pli dans l œuvre de Henri Michaux (2007, Paris: Lettres modernes Minard); Beckett, les fictions brèves: voir et dire (2008, Paris: Lettres modernes Minard); Étrange amour, portrait en énigme (2009, Paris: Éditions D. Reinharc). He is the director of the Samuel Beckett Series Lettres modernes Minard): Samuel Beckett 1: L Ascèse du sujet (2011). Journal of Beckett Studies 20.2 (2011): Edinburgh University Press DOI: /jobs Theeditors,Journal of Beckett Studies

2 Notes on Contributors 241 Glenn Clifton is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. His thesis, Self-Cultivation without a Self: Modernism, Age, and the Growth of the Subject, explores aging and self-development in the works of selected Modernist authors. Thomas Cousineau is Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland. The author of four books, including two on Beckett, he also edited Beckett in France a special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies and served for several years as the editor of The Beckett Circle. He is currently working on two book-projects: one, under contract with the Dalkey Archive Press, on Fernando Pessoa s The Book of Disquiet and the other on the Daedalus Complex in modernist writing. Everett Frost taught Radio, Television and Film at New York University. He founded Voices International and his radio productions include the radio plays of Samuel Beckett and the Hörspiel Project. He is the co-editor of German Radio Plays and Notes diverse holo: Catalogues of Beckett s reading notes and other manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin (Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd hui 16). Nicholas Johnson is a Lecturer in Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he wrote his PhD on the performance of Samuel Beckett s prose. He is a theatre director, performer, and writer, and has worked as artistic director of Dublin s Painted Filly Theatre since Emilie Morin is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, and the author of Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness (2009, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan). John Pilling is Emeritus Professor of English and European Literature at the University of Reading, where for more than ten years he was Director of the Beckett International Foundation. He is a former editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies, and serves on its advisory board. He also serves on the advisory board of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd hui. Of his many writings on Beckett the most recent are Samuel Beckett s More Pricks Than Kicks: InAStrait Of Two Wills (2011, New York: Continuum) and A Samuel Beckett Chronology (2006, London: Macmillan).

3 Beckett Digital Manuscript Project We are delighted to announce the launch of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin). The project is supported by the Estate of Samuel Beckett, and is published by the University Press of Antwerp. The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett s works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research: the project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett s manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, and a search engine. The project also enhances the preservation of Beckett s manuscripts. The BDMP consists of two parts: (a) a digital archive of Samuel Beckett s manuscripts (www. beckettarchive.org), organised in research modules. Each of these modules comprises digital facsimiles and transcriptions of all the extant manuscripts pertaining to an individual text, or in the case of shorter texts, a group of texts; (b) a series of print volumes analysing the genesis of the texts contained in the corresponding electronic environment. The editorial schedule of the BDMP envisages the publication of one module per year, and will run to The first electronic module, which comprises Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word, edited by Dirk Van Hulle, and the corresponding volume The Making of Samuel Beckett s Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the

4 word (Brussels: ASP/University Press Antwerp, 2011, ISBN: ) are now available. See for details. The BDMP is a collaborative research project, undertaken by and for the scholarly Beckett community; we invite colleagues to participate and to comment on the project. The project relies on subscriptions (individual and institutional) by the community to ensure its continuation and successful completion. Should you have any comments or queries, please don t hesitate to contact the project directors: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp dirk.vanhulle@ua. ac.be) Mark Nixon (University of Reading m.nixon@reading.ac.uk)

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