Derval Tubridy, Emeritus Professor in Literature and Visual Culture in Goldsmiths (University of London), gave a talk on December 9, 2024, about Samuel Beckett’s role within video art, discussing Beckett’s Not I (1973) in a dialogue with Bruce Nauman, Lip Synch (1969), Vito Acconci, Open Book (1974), Stan Douglas, Deux Devises, Part 2 (1983), and Mona Hatoum, So Much I Want to Say (1983).
Derval Tubridy is Professor in Literature and Visual Culture and Chair of the British Association for Irish Studies.
Author of Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (UCD Press 2001) and Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2018) she has published extensively on Modernism and Irish Studies with a focus on literature, the visual arts, and performance at the intersection between language, materiality and process. Her creative practice includes poetry, printmaking and painting.
A former Dean of the Graduate School she has served on Council and Academic Board, and the management boards of AHRC and ESRC funded DTPs. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission, the British Council, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
She is co-convener of the London Beckett Seminar at the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths and the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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