Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Derval Tubridy

Research

My research focuses on the intersection between language, materiality, process and topography in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, philosophy and visual culture with particular emphasis on the Samuel Beckett and Thomas Kinsella. I am currently writing a monograph on Samuel Beckett’s influence on contemporary aesthetics called Art after Beckett.

Academic qualifications

BA (Mod) in English and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
MPhil in Textual and Visual Studies, Trinity College Dublin and University of Paris 7
Auditrice Étrangère, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
PhD on Samuel Beckett, Trinity College Dublin.

Teaching

Convenor of BA Moderns, MA Postmodern Fiction (Department of English and Comparative Literature), BA Beckett and Aesthetics (Department of Visual Cultures).

Areas of supervision

I particularly welcome proposals for research on all aspects of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Kinsella; Irish literature, and on the relationship between the visual arts and literature.

Presentations and exhibitions

• INFERNO: Exhibition of paintings based on Dante Alighieri ’s work at the Art House Gallery (February–March 2004)
• CARDIAC: A collaboration between molecular biology, painting and computer technology exploring the physiological, aesthetic and social significance of the heart through the image and action of the cardiomyocyte (2004-2006). Project developed in conjunction with Dr Sandra Austin, cardiovascular research scientist at the Conway Institute, University College Dublin, and Daan Archer, proteomics/systems biology scientist at the Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin.
• ADJACENCY: Currently working on a series of paintings and mixed media works based on the map of Derry used by the Saville Inquiry, and on photos of the events, exploring the slippage between topography and cartography, and between narrative and the event, in the understanding of Bloody Sunday.

Grants & awards

London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise Award 2006
British Academy Research Award 2002
Goldsmiths Centre for Excellence in Learning Technology Fellowship 2002–2003
New York University, Research Associate, Spring 1999.
Fulbright Ireland McCourt Scholarship in Literature, 1998.
Emory University, Postgraduate Fellowship to study with Jean-François Lyotard, 1995

Professional activities

Publications

Books

Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001) pp.xii+273. ISBN 1900621525 hardcover, 1900621533 paper.

Editions

Guest Editor: Irish Studies Review, Thomas Kinsella Special Issue, vol.16, no.3 (2008). ISSN0967-0882.

Chapters in Books

• ‘The Dolmen Press: “A Hazardous Venture”’, in The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V: The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000, eds. Clare Hutton and Patrick Walsh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 576-591. ISBN-10: 0199249113 ISBN-13: 978-0199249114
• ‘Beckett, Feldman, Salcedo… Neither’ in Beckett and Nothing, ed. Daniela Caselli (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp.143-159. ISBN 9780719080197.
• ‘“In his secondmouth language”: Joyce and Irish Poetry’ in A Companion to James Joyce, ed. Richard Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), pp.341-358. ISBN 978140511044.
• ‘“The Absence of Origin”: Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy’ in Contemporary Debates in Literature and Philosophy, ed. David Rudrum (London: Palgrave. 2006), pp.24-36. ISBN 1403947732.
• ‘National Identity and Urban Topography in Joyce’s and Kinsella’s Dublin’, Ireland: Space, Text, Time, eds. Liam Harte, Yvonne Whelan and Patrick Crotty (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2005), pp.35-44. ISBN 1904148832.
• ‘Thomas Kinsella and the Peppercanister Press’, The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century, ed. Clare Hutton (Dublin; Portland Or: Irish Academic Press, 2004), pp.102-115, 200-202. ISBN 0716527804 hardcover, 0716533359 paper.
• ‘The subject doesn’t matter, there is none’: Beckett’s Unnamable’, Other Becketts, eds. D. Caselli, S. Connor, L. Salisbury (Tallahassee, Florida: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2002) pp.196-206. ISBN 1892770016.
• ‘“Words Pronouncing Me Alive”: Beckett and Incarnation’ in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 9: Beckett and Religion; Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, eds. Mary Bryden and Lance St.John Butler (Amsterdam, Netherlands; Atlanta, U.S.A.: Rodopi, 2000), pp.93-104. ISBN 9042014040
• ‘Vain Reasonings: Not I, in Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, ed. Jennifer Jeffers (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 111-131. ISBN 0815325517

Articles in Journals

• ‘Sounding Spaces: Aurality in Beckett, Nauman and Cardiff’, Performance Research, Issue 12:1 (March 2007), pp.5-11. ISSN 13528165.
• ‘The Aesthetics of Ruptured Visibility: Samuel Beckett’s Rockaby’, L’Allusion et l’Acces, ed. Peter Vernon, GRAAT no.31, Tours: Presses Universitaires Francois Rabelais, 2005, pp.103-115. ISSN 0997-4970, ISBN 2-86906-210-9.
• ‘Loose Signatures: Samuel Beckett and the Livre d’Artiste’, Seeing Things: Literature and the Visual, GRAAT no.28, Tours: Presses Universitaires Francois Rabelais, 2005, pp.109-122. ISSN 0997-4970. ISBN 2-86906-200-1.
• ‘The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Vols. IV and V’, Review article in Irish Studies Review, vol.12, no.1, Spring 2004, pp.127-131. ISSN 09670882.
• ‘Difficult Migrations: The Dinnseanchas of Thomas Kinsella's Later Poetry’, The Irish University Review, vol. 31, no.1, Spring/Summer 2001, pp.172-186. ISSN 00211427
• ‘The subject doesn’t matter, there is none’: Beckett’s Unnamable,’ The Journal of Beckett Studies, Spring 2001, vol. 2, nos 1-2, pp.196-206. ISSN 03095207.
• ‘Irish Identities in Thomas Kinsella’s Poetry’ in Foilsiú. New York: Grian, Spring 2001, pp.37-45. ISSN 15336980.
•  “Quotation, Translation and Contamination in the Third Fizzle of Samuel Beckett’s and Jasper Johns’ Foirades/Fizzles” in  Imprimatur,  ed. Julian Wolfreys, vol.1, nos. 2/3, Spring 1996, pp.101-9. ISSN 13609017.

Professional activities

Peer Reviewer for the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Reviews Editor for the The Beckett Circle
Reader for Irish Studies Review, Irish University Review, Modern Philology, Irish Academic Press

Member of:

• The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
• The British Association for Irish Studies
• The British Comparative Literature Association
• The Samuel Beckett Society
• The Irish Fulbright Alumni Association

Keynote lectures

Keynote and invited Lectures

‘The Sublime at the Intersection of Art and Literature’,  Institute of Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt University, Berlin (July 2011)
‘Bun-Ching Lam’s and Beckett’s Quatre Poèmes/Four Songs: Music, Image, Text’, Beckett International Foundation Seminar, Reading University (May 2011).
‘Keeping Company with Beckett and Blanchot’, keynote paper delivered at the ‘Beckett, Blanchot, Celan & Philosophy’ conference, University of Sussex (June 2010).
‘Beckett, Johns and the livre d’artiste’, ‘Picturing Language: The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth Century Europe’ Colloquium, University of Kent, Canterbury (June 2009).
‘“Tripping in his Wake, I'm wracked”’: Writing Poetry after Joyce', Twelfth Annual Trieste Joyce School, University of Trieste (June–July 2008).
‘Thomas Kinsella: A Reading’, Gate Theatre, Dublin, as part of Dublin Writer’s Week (June 2007).
‘Samuel Beckett and the Contemporary Arts’, keynote paper delivered at Tate Modern as part of the ‘Beckett & Company’ conference organised by Tate Modern, Goldsmiths, Birkbeck and the London Constortium (October 2006).
‘Samuel Beckett: Visual Theatre’,  Teatro Municipal de Sao Luis, Lisbon (April 2006).
‘Beckett on Film’, Interview with Charles Sturridge and Kieron Walsh, Barbican Theatre, London (April 2006).
‘”The thing itself”’: Liam Miller and the Dolmen Press’, keynote paper delivered at the opening of the Dolmen Press Archives, Wake Forest University, North Carolina (March 2006).
‘The Purgatorial Aspect of Yeats’s and Beckett’s Theatre’, W.B.Yeats International Summer School, Sligo (August 2004)
 ‘Joyce, Irish Writing, and the Politics of Form’, Plenary roundtable of the James Joyce Symposium, National College of Ireland, Dublin (June 2004).

Conferences

‘Ethics and Aesthetics in Georg Baselitz’s and Samuel Beckett’s Bing’, Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive Conference, University of York (June 2011).
‘Beckett’s Spectral Silence: A Question of the Sublime”, paper delivered at the ‘Spectral Beckett / Spectres de Beckett’ conference, Paris (April 2009).
‘Beckett and Contemporary Art: Cardiff and Salcedo’, paper delivered at the ‘Beckett et la trace/Beckett’s Traces’ conference, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3 (December 2006).
‘Power, Politics and Polis in Beckett’s What Where’, paper delivered at the ‘100 Years a Dying: Samuel Beckett’ Conference, University College Cork (May 2006)
 ‘Tom Murphy and Enda Walsh: The Beckett Legacy’, paper delivered at the roundtable on Beckett’s Legacy for Theatre, Goldsmiths College, London (February 2006)
 ‘“A Hazardous Venture”: The Dolmen Press’, paper delivered at the BAIS, ACIS conference at the University of Liverpool (July 2004).
‘“Tripping in his wake, I’m wracked”: Joyce and Irish Poetry’, paper delivered at the James Joyce Symposium, National College of Ireland, Dublin (June 2004).
‘National identity and urban topography in Joyce’s and Kinsella’s Dublin’, ‘Joyce, Irish Writing, and the Politics of Form’, paper delivered at the ‘Ireland: Space, Text, Time’ conference at The Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Derry (March 2004).
‘Beckett’s Failed Heroism: A “Fair to Middling” Attempt’, paper delivered to the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway (March 2004).
 ‘“Rage, affliction, and outcry”: Place and Politics in Joyce and Kinsella’, paper delivered at the ‘Joyce, Ireland, Britain’ conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London (November 2002).
‘Thomas Kinsella: A Poetry of Passion’, Department of English, Wake Forest University, North Carolina (September 2002).
‘The Aesthetics of Ruptured Visibility: Samuel Beckett’s Rockaby’, paper delivered at the ‘Allusion and Access’ conference, Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours, Université de Tours (September 2002).
‘Beckett and the Sublime, or, Does Size Matter?’ paper delivered at the ‘Re-reading Beckett’s Late Drama: Aesthetics, Representation, Performance’ conference, Royal Holloway College, University of London (June 2002).
‘The Dolmen Press’, paper delivered at the colloquium on the History of the Irish Book organized by the Research Centre in the History of the Book: Institute of English Studies, University of London (April 2002).
‘Loose Signatures: Samuel Beckett and the Livre d’Artiste’, paper delivered at the British Council Symposium: ‘Seeing Things: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and the Visual’, University of Tours (September 2001).
 ‘“Littered Uplands. Dense Grass. Rocks everywhere”: Thomas Kinsella’s Poetics of Difficulty’, paper delivered to the Irish Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London (November 2000).                                                                                                                                                                                
‘Dark Waters Churn Amongst Us’: Thomas Kinsella’s Poetry’, University of Salford, Manchester.  Conference on ‘Poetry and Poetics into the Twenty-First Century’ (June 2000).
‘The subject doesn’t matter, there is none’:  Beckett’s Unnamable’, Birkbeck College, University of London.  Conference on Samuel Beckett ‘Different Becketts/Beckett’s Differences’ (June 2000).
 ‘Elliptical Change of Site: Beckett and the Artist’s Book’, Emory University, Atlanta.  Conference on ‘Samuel Beckett and the Visual Text’ (November 1999).
‘Words Pronouncing me Alive: Beckett and Incarnation’, University of Stirling. Conference on ‘Samuel Beckett and Religion’ (September 1999).
“Revisioning Identity: Thomas Kinsella”, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Universitat de Barcelona (July 1999).
‘Samuel Beckett, Watt, and Minor Literature’, National University of Ireland, Galway.  Conference on ‘Defining Colonies’ (June 1999).
‘Dismembered Texts: Beckett’s Late Corpus’, paper delivered at the ‘Samuel Beckett’s Prose Fragments’ symposium, South Bank University (June 1999).
‘Text into Image: Foirades/Fizzles’, paper delivered to the University of Reading Samuel Beckett Seminar (May 1999).
‘The Peppercanisters’, Institute of English Studies, University of London.  Conference on ‘The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century’ (May 1999).                
‘Irish Identities in Thomas Kinsella’s Writing’, paper delivered at the ‘Formations, Forms, and Transformations: Irish Identities’ conference, New York University (March 1999).
‘Language, Identity and Literature: Samuel Beckett’, paper delivered at the North Eastern Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore  (April 1998).
Organised The Northwest Irish Studies Group seminar at Manchester Metropolitan University (March 1998).
 ‘Thomas Kinsella: Out of Ireland’, paper delivered at the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C. (December 1996).
‘Her Other: the Gaze in Rockaby’, paper delivered at the Twentieth Annual Conference International Association for Philosophy and Literature, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. (May 1996).
‘The Searing Sign: Husserl and Beckett’s Not I’, paper delivered at ‘Text and Presentation’, the Twentieth Annual University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville (March 1996).
 ‘Quotation, Translation and Contamination in the third fizzle of Samuel Beckett’s and Jasper Johns’ Foirades/Fizzles’, paper delivered at the ‘Applied Derrida’ International Symposium, University of Luton. (July 1995).
‘Watt and the Surface of Sense’, paper delivered at the ‘Linguistic Representations of the Self’ conference, Liverpool University (June 1994).