Brian Moore

Thesis Title: Untimely Beckett: In the Company of Joyce, Proust, Yeats, and Blanchot

Supervisor: Professor Dirk Van Hulle and Professor David Dwan

Research Interests: Samuel Beckett; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce; Marcel Proust; W.B. Yeats; Maurice Blanchot; modernism and its contexts (historical, philosophical, political, sociological, etc.); Irish modernism; poetic allusion; the history of the novel; literature and theory; genetic criticism; cinema and modernism; Djuna Barnes; Walter Benjamin; Elizabeth Bishop; Joseph Conrad; Seamus Heaney; Martin Heidegger; Wyndham Lewis; Eimear McBride; Flann O'Brien;  Derek Walcott; Evelyn Waugh; Oscar Wilde.

Publications: 

• Editor: Samuel Beckett’s “Mal vu mal dit” / “Ill Seen Ill Said”: A Digital Genetic Edition (Beckett Digital Manuscript Project), forthcoming 2026. 
• ‘The Life of the Afterlife: Posthumous and Digital Publication’ in Unprinted: Publication Beyond the Press, ed. Dan Wakelin and Daria Kohler (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2024).
• ‘Exhausted Senses: Between the Eye and the Ear in ‘Long Observation of the Ray’ and ‘The Voice/Verbatim’’, Journal of Beckett Studies 31.2 (September 2022), pp. 169–187. https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0373
• ‘‘Parnellian Silences’ in Virginia Woolf’s The Years’, The Cambridge Quarterly 51.1 (March 2022), pp. 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfab031