Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Derval Tubridy

Academic qualifications

BA (Mod) in Philosophy and Literature, Trinity College Dublin
MPhil in Textual and Visual Studies, Trinity College Dublin and University of Paris 7
Auditrice Étrangère, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
PhD in Literature, Trinity College Dublin
(Appointed to Goldsmiths in 1998)

Teaching

Convenor of BA Beckett and Aesthetics, BA Moderns, MA Intellectual Contexts of Twentieth Century Literature, and MA Postmodernist Fictions

Areas of supervision

Past and present supervision includes research on Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, B.S. Johnson, Paul Muldoon and Seán O’Casey. I particularly welcome proposals for research on Beckett and the visual arts, philosophy and theatre, and on Thomas Kinsella and the Dolmen Press.

Research interests

My research focuses on the intersection between language, materiality, process and topography in twentieth-century and contemporary Visual Culture, Philosophy, Theatre and Literature with particular emphasis on Samuel Beckett and Thomas Kinsella. I have completed a manuscript on the relationship between language, subjectivity and the body in Beckett’s prose and drama. My current research projects include a book called Art after Beckett, an examination of Beckett’s influence on contemporary aesthetics. I am editing a special Thomas Kinsella issue of Irish Studies Review, and a collection of the proceedings of the 2006 centenary conference Beckett and Company.

Selected publications

Books:

Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001, pp.273+viii. ISBN 1900621525 hardback, 1900621533 paper.

Editions:

Irish Studies Review, Thomas Kinsella Special Issue, vol.16, no.3 (2008). Also ‘Introduction’ and ‘Selected Bibliography’.

Chapters and Articles:

• ‘"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.
• ‘Sounding Spaces: Aurality in Beckett, Nauman and Cardiff’, Performance Research, ed. Catherine Laws. Issue 12:1 (March 2007) pp.5-11. ISSN 13528165.
• ‘"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.
• ‘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 09974970, ISBN 2869062109.
• ‘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 09974970. ISBN 2869062001.
• ‘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 Poems’, 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 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. Also published in Other Becketts, eds. D. Caselli, S. Connor, L. Salisbury (Tallahassee, Florida: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2002) pp.196-206. ISBN 1892770016.
• ‘Irish Identities in Thomas Kinsella’s Poetry’ in Foilsiú. New York: Grian, Spring 2001, pp.37-45. ISSN 15336980.
• "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.
• 'Speech and Obligation in Not I', in Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, ed. Jennifer Jeffers (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 111-131. ISBN 0815325517.
• '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.

In Press:

‘Beckett, Feldman, Salcedo… Neither’. Beckett and Nothing. Ed. Daniela Caselli. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
"Power, Politics and Polis: Samuel Beckett’s What Where" in 100 Years A Dying: A Centenary Anthology of Essays on Samuel Beckett, eds. James Carney, Michael O’Sullivan, Leonard Madden, Karl White (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press).
‘The Dolmen Press: "A Hazardous Venture"’ in The History of the Book.  Vol. 5: The Irish Book in English, 1900-2000, eds. Clare Hutton, Dermot Keogh and Patrick Walsh (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

In Preparation:

Art after Beckett. A book on the importance of Beckett’s writing for contemporary art.

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

• Reviews Editor for the International Beckett Society Journal The Beckett Circle.
• Referee for the Irish Studies Review Research Journal
• PhD Examiner for Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, University of London
• Director, Goldsmiths Beckett Research Group
• Co-organiser of the 2006 International Centenary Conference on Beckett and the Arts, Beckett & Company with Tate Modern, Birkbeck, London Consortium and LCACE
• Member International Association for the Study of Irish Literature
• Member British Association for Irish Studies
• Member British Comparative Literature Society