Beckett Ongoing

Michael Krimper teaches in the Department of French and Gallatin School at New York University where he received his PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature in 2018. He specializes in 20th-21st century Francophone, Anglophone, and comparative literatures, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of critical theory and modernism. His current book project examines the ethics and politics of refusal across a wide array of literature, visual art, and philosophy in the twentieth century. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in SubStance, New Literary History, Diacritics, Parallax, the Journal for Beckett Studies, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues.
Gabriel Quigley is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University. His research interests include interwar modernism, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, disability studies, and twentieth-century philosophy. Amongst other venues, his work has been published in Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, French Studies Bulletin (forthcoming), and The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer (Vernon Press, forthcoming). He is also an Editorial Assistant for Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. His current research project examines the intersection of racial and aesthetic theories in the works of interwar modernists, namely Joyce, Beckett, Pound, and Cunard.

Chapter 1: "Beckett. On." David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside).- Chapter 2: "'Where you are worth nothing': Beckett, Geulincx, and an Ethics of the Miracle," Gabriel Quigley (New York University).- Chapter 3: "Philosophy in the Flesh: Feeling, Folly, and Animals in Beckett's Molloy," William Broadway (University of Wisconsin-Madison).- Chapter 4: "GGREY! (Beckett/dialectic)," Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto).- Chapter 5: "Reading Beckett's Bilingualism with Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Rancière," Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh).- Chapter 6: "Rêve de transfert collective: Beckett's Resurgent Unanimism," Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania).- Chapter 7: "'The Golden Moment': Violence, Escape, and Broken Immanence" Michael Krimper (New York University).- Chapter 8: "Respirer sans cesse: Proust and Beckett's Intermissions," Stefanie Heine (University of Toronto).- Chapter 9: "The Grammar of Absurdity and Affective Crisis:  Reading Anna Burns' Milkman through Beckett's Philosophic Comedy," John Waters (New York University).