Samuel Beckett and Technology

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Galina Kiryushina is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Centre for Irish Studies Charles University Prague. Her current research focuses on intermediality in the work of Samuel Beckett in particular on the transitions between the media of film and television and Beckett's late prose. Her essays on Beckett and cinema have appeared as journal articles and book chapters most recently in Beckett and Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (32:1; 2020).Doctoral candidate and researcher at the Centre for Irish StudiesEinat Adar is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of South Bohemia in ?esk Bud?jovice. She was awarded a PhD from Charles University Prague in 2017 for a thesis examining Beckett's lifelong engagement with Berkeley's philosophy and its influence on his literary production in prose theatre and film. Her work explores the interface between philosophy and Irish modernism and has been published in the essay collections Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour and Tradition and Modernity: New Essays in Irish Studies which she also co-edited as well as in the journals Partial Answers and Estudios Irlandeses.Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading where he is also Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and editor of the book series 'Elements in Beckett Studies' (CUP). He is also a former President of the Samuel Beckett Society. He has authored or edited more than ten books on Beckett's work; recent publications include Samuel Beckett's Library (with Dirk Van Hulle Cambridge UP 2013) and the critical edition of Beckett's short story Echo's Bones (Faber 2014). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Beckett's 'German Diaries' (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp 2022).