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CONTRIBUTORS
is currently working on a collaborative project documenting and analysing
Harold Pinters radio, stage, and screen drama. Jonathan is a Trustee of the
Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.
Llewellyn Brown teaches French literature at the Lycée international de
Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He has published Figures du mensonge littéraire:
études sur l'écriture au xx° siècle (2005), L'Esthétique du pli dans l’œuvre de
Henri Michaux (2007), Beckett, les fictions brèves: voir et dire (2008), Savoir
de l'amour (2012), Beckett, Lacan and the Voice (2016). He is a member of the
editorial board of publisher Lettres modernes Minard, for whom he directs
the “Samuel Beckett” series.
Néill O’Dwyer is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in the V-SENSE
project, in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
(TCD). He is an adjunct lecturer and research fellow of the School of Creative
Arts, where he teaches Performance and Technology. He is an awardee of
the prestigious Irish Research Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Research
Fellowship (2017-2019). He specializes in practice-based research in the fields
of scenography and design-led performance with a specific focus on digital
media, computer vision, human-computer interaction, prosthesis, symbiosis,
agency, performativity, and the impact of technology on artistic processes.
Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University,
Tokyo, Japan. She has published essays on the reception of Beckett’s works
in Japan and the influence of Haiku on Beckett in Samuel Beckett Today /
Aujourd’hui, and chapters in collections of essays on Beckett. With Yoshiki
Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima, she edited Samuel Beckett and Pain (Rodopi,
2013) and Samuel Beckett and trauma (Manchester University Press, 2018).
In Japanese, she authored Beckett Junrei [Pilgrimage] in 2007 and Kaitei o
Kasaneru Godot o Machinagara: Enshutsuka to shite no Beckett [Revised
Versions of Waiting for Godot: Beckett as a Director] in 2017, which received
the Yoshida Hidekazu Award in 2018.
Nicholas E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin.
Books include Experimental Beckett (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Bertolt Brecht’s
David Fragments (Bloomsbury, 2020). With Jonathan Heron, he co-edited the
Journal of Beckett Studies special issues on pedagogy (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2020) and
performance (Vol. 23, Nr. 1, 2014) and founded the Samuel Beckett Laboratory
in 2013. He is a founding co-director of the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies
and co-convened the Beckett Working Group for IFTR, 2014-2018. He works
as a dramaturg for Pan Pan and Dead Centre and has held visiting research
positions at Freie Universität Berlin and Yale University.
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