Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art

David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on modern French literature and Samuel Beckett and is the author of Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism (2016), Samuel Beckett and Testimony (2011), and The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett (2000). He most recently co-edited Assessing the Legacy of the Gueules cassées: from Surgery to Art, a special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies (2017). Robert Reginio is an Associate Professor in the Division of English at Alfred University in New York. He has published works on Samuel Beckett and Conceptual Art and Beckett’s engagement with the problem of history, in addition to essays on Bob Dylan and on Virginia Woolf. Katherine Weiss is a Professor in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University. In addition to her work on Samuel Beckett, she has published on modern playwrights such as Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams.