Brian Michael Moore

Thesis Title: Beckett's Confusions: Inspiration, Combination, De-composition

Supervisor: Professor Dirk Van Hulle

Research Interests: Samuel Beckett; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce; Wyndham Lewis; modernism and its contexts (historical, philosophical, political, etc.); the history of the novel; the modernist novel; poststructuralism and the novel; the epic; literature and theory; symbolism; genetic criticism; ekphrasis and modernism; cinema and modernism; Dante and modernism; Elizabeth Bishop; Maurice Blanchot; Walter Benjamin; Thomas Bernhard; Joseph Conrad; Seamus Heaney; Martin Heidegger; Eimear McBride; Flann O'Brien; Marcel Proust; Derek Walcott; W.B. Yeats.

Publications: 
‘‘Parnellian Silences’ in Virginia Woolf’s The Years’, The Cambridge Quarterly 51.1 (March 2022), pp. 20–3. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfab031

‘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