A seminar by Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum from September 25, 2022.
Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he has worked full-time since 2008. He co-founded the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, within which he co-directs the Beckett Summer School and the Samuel Beckett Laboratory. With Jonathan Heron (Warwick), he co-authored the monograph Experimental Beckett (Cambridge UP, 2020) and co-edited the Performance Issue (23.1, 2014) and Pedagogy Issue (29.1, 2020) of the Journal of Beckett Studies. He co-edited two volumes of essays from the Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research: Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing (L'Harmattan, 2020) and Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckett (Brill, 2021). He has published widely in journals and edited collections on adaptations and intermedial performances of Beckett, directing and acting Beckett, Beckett and censorship, and the use of performance as a tool for research.
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