Mark Nixon
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+44 (0) 118 378 7010
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Professor
Co-director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Areas of interest
My main research focus is on the work of Samuel Beckett. Other research interests: Paul Celan; modern European literature; contemporary fiction; genetic manuscript studies; scholarly editing; digital humanities; animal rights.Postgraduate supervision
I welcome applications from research students planning to work on Samuel Beckett, modern European Literature, contemporary fiction, modern manuscripts, or in the fields of genetic criticism and textual scholarship.Teaching
I am convenor of undergraduate modules:
- Modernism (Part 2)
- Samuel Beckett (EN3SB)
- James Joyce (EN3JJ)
- The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts (EN3SM)
I am convenor of MA modules:
- Materiality and Textuality
- Samuel Beckett
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Co-Director, Beckett International Foundation
- Co-Director, Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
- Editor-in-chief, Journal of Beckett Studies
- Series Editor, 'Elements in Beckett Studies' (Cambridge University Press)
- President, Samuel Beckett Society (2013-2015)
- Honorary Member of the Samuel Beckett Gesellschaft
Publications
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Nixon, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-1785
(2022)
'The missing poème: Beckett's fêtes galantes'.
In:
Brophy, J.
and
Davies, W.
, (eds.)
Samuel Beckett's Poetry.
Cambridge University Press
pp.
115-125.
ISBN:
9781009222563
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009222563.009
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Rapcsak, B.
,
Nixon, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-1785
,
Schweighauser, P.
, eds.
(2022)
Beckett and media.
Manchester University Press
pp
248.
ISBN:
9781526145833
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526145840
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Kiryushina, G.
,
Adar, E.
,
Nixon, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-1785
, eds.
(2021)
Samuel Beckett and technology.
Edinburgh University Press
, Edinburgh.
pp
288.
ISBN:
9781474463287
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Kiryushina, G.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-1785
and
Nixon, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-1785
(2021)
Samuel Beckett's 'The North'.
Journal of Beckett Studies
, 30
(2).
pp.
188-204.
ISSN:
0309-5207
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2021.0340
- McMullan, A. and Nixon, M. (2020) Pedagogies of place: Reading. Journal of Beckett Studies , 29 (1). pp. 74-82. ISSN: 0309-5207 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2020.0285
- McTighe, T. , Morin, E. , Nixon, M. , eds. (2020) Beckett and Intermediality / Beckett, artiste intérmedial. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 32. Brill (1). , Leiden.
- Nixon, M. (2019) "All the variants". In: Rabaté, J. , (eds.) The New Samuel Beckett Studies. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 36-47. ISBN: 9781108559331 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108559331.003
- Little, J. , Nugent-Folan, G. , Morin, E. , Nixon, M. , eds. (2019) Draff / Résidu. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 31. Brill | Rodopi (1). , Leiden, The Netherlands. pp 181.
- Nixon, M. and Van Hulle, D. , eds. (2019) 'never neglect the little things in life': Beckett and the Everyday. Journal of Beckett Studies , 28. Edinburgh University Press (1).
- Nixon, M. (2019) Samuel Beckett: la traduction en anglais de 'Textes pour rien'. In: Brown, L. , (eds.) Textes pour rien / Texts for Nothing de Samuel Beckett: Le corps de la voix impossible. Lettres Modernes Minard , Paris. pp. 55-66. ISBN: 9782406081425 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08143-2.p.0055
- Maude, U. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2018) The Bloomsbury companion to modernist literature. Bloomsbury pp 560. ISBN: 9781780936413
- McMullan, A. , Pattie, D. , Nixon, M. , eds. (2017) Staging Beckett at the Margins / Autres scènes beckettiennes. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 29. Brill (2). , Leiden.
- Nixon, M. and Van Hulle, D. (2017) German fever: Beckett in Deutschland. Marbacher Magazine , 158/159. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft , Marbach am Neckar. pp 247. ISBN: 9783944469300
- Nixon, M. and Séguier (transl.), J. (2017) Chronologie du voyage de Samuel Beckett en Allegmagne (28 Septembre 1936 - 2 Avril 1937). In: Brown, L. , (eds.) La Violence dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett. Série Samuel Beckett Lettres Modernes Minard (4). , Paris. pp. 313-345. ISBN: 9782812450228
- Antonielli, A. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2016) Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s "The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical"; a manuscript edition, with critical analysis. Firenze University Press pp 762. ISBN: 978864533407
- Hulle, D. , Nixon, M. , Neyt, V. (2016) Samuel Beckett's digital library. In: Hulle, D. , Nixon, M. , Neyt, V. , (eds.) Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
- Carville, C. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2015) 'Beginning of the murmur': archival pre-texts and other sources. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 27. Brill / Rodopi , Leiden. ISBN: 9789004309913
- Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2015) My Texts are in a Terrible Mess. Journal of Beckett Studies , 24. Edinburgh University Press (1). , Edinburgh. pp 161.
- Tucker, D. and Nixon, M. (2015) Toward a scholarly edition of Beckett's critical writings. Journal of Beckett Studies , 24 (1). pp. 49-56. ISSN: 0309-5207 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2015.0119
- Nixon, M. (2015) Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet. In: Van Hulle, D. , (eds.) The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett. 2nd edition. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge University Press pp. 73-88. ISBN: 9781107075191
- Nixon, M. (2015) Postman and scholar: James Knowlson's friendship with Samuel Beckett. On in their company - Essays on Beckett, with Tributes and Sketches; Presented to Jim Knowlson on his 80th Birthday. Beckett International Foundation , Reading. pp. 17-23. ISBN: 9780704915343
- Nixon, M. and Pilling, J. , eds. (2015) On in their company: essays on Beckett, with tributes and sketches; presented to Jim Knowlson on his 80th Birthday. Beckett International Foundation , Reading. pp 254. ISBN: 9780704915343
- Tucker, D. , Nixon, M. , Van Hulle, D. , eds. (2014) Revisiting Molloy, Malone meurt / Malone Dies and L’Innommable / The Unnamable. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 26. Rodopi , Amsterdam. pp 316. ISBN: 9789042038806
- Nixon, M. , eds. (2014) Samuel Beckett: Echo's Bones. Grove Press , New York. pp 128. ISBN: 9780802120458
- Van Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. (2014) Performance and Beckett's Bare room. Journal of Beckett Studies , 23 (1). pp. v-xi. ISSN: 0309-5207 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2014.0082
- Nixon, M. (2014) Beckett's unpublished canon. In: Gontarski, S. , (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press , Edinburgh. pp. 282-305. ISBN: 9780748675685
- Nixon, M. , eds. (2014) 'Echo's Bones' by Samuel Beckett. Faber & Faber , London. pp 128. ISBN: 9780571246380
- Nixon, M. (2013) Beckett liest deutsche Literatur 1945-1989: Eine Übersicht. In: Wilm, J. and Nixon, M. , (eds.) Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur. transcript verlag pp. 19-31. ISBN: 9783837620672
- Wilm, J. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2013) Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur. transcript verlag pp 194. ISBN: 9783837620672
- Nixon, M. (2013) Samuel Beckett Németországban, 1936-37 – felvilágosítók és hályogkovácsok – Bevezetés Beckett Német naplóihoz’ [translation by Török Gabor]. Nagyvilág , 58 (5). pp. 522-531.
- Nixon, M. (2013) Germany: circa 1936-1937. In: Uhlmann, A. , (eds.) Beckett in Context. Literature in context Cambridge University Press , Cambridge / New York. pp. 99-108. ISBN: 9781107017030
- Nixon, M. (2013) Samuel Beckett: video artist. In: Fifield, P. and Addyman, D. , (eds.) Samuel Beckett: Debts and legacies: New critical essays. Bloomsbury Methuen , London. pp. 177-190. ISBN: 9781408184523
- Antonielli, A. and Nixon, M. (2013) Toward an edition of Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats’s The works of William Blake: poetic, symbolic and critical . Variants - The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship , 10 pp. 271-286. ISSN: 1573-3084
- Van Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. (2013) Samuel Beckett's library. Cambridge University Press pp 342. ISBN: 9781107001268
- Van Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. (2012) Historisch-krritische genetic crritic!. editio , 26 (1). pp. 30-37. ISSN: 1865-9446 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/editio-2012-0004
- Nixon, M. (2012) 'Happily melancholy’: pleasure and pain in Early Beckett. In: Tanaka, M. , Tsushima, M. , Tajiri, Y. , (eds.) Samuel Beckett and Pain. Rodopi , Amsterdam. pp. 27-42. ISBN: 978904203523
- Nixon, M. (2011) Beckett's 'Film Vidéo-Cassette projet'. In: Hartel, G. and Glasmeier, G. , (eds.) The Eye of Prey: Becketts Film-, Fernseh- und Videoarbeiten: Becketts Fernseh-, Film- und Videoarbeiten. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main. pp. 401-414. ISBN: 9783518124604
- Nixon, M. (2011) Beckett’s manuscripts in the marketplace. Modernism/Modernity , 18 (4). pp. 823 -831. ISSN: 1080-6601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2011.0105
- Nixon, M. , eds. (2011) Publishing Samuel Beckett. British Library pp 304. ISBN: 9780712358262
- Nixon, M. (2011) Samuel Beckett’s German diaries 1936-37. Historicizing Modernism Continuum pp 272. ISBN: 9781441152589
- Nixon, M. (2011) “a space to note”: Raumästhetik in Becketts Manuskripten. In: Sick , F. , (eds.) Raum und Objekt im Werk von Samuel Beckett. transcript verlag pp. 1-11. ISBN: 9783837615159
- Nixon, M. (2010) Beckett back with the Irish. Times Literary Supplement , 23 July 20 ISSN: 0307-661X
- Nixon, M. (2010) Chronology of Beckett's journey to Germany 1936-1937 (based on the German diaries). Journal of Beckett Studies , 19 (2). pp. 245-272. ISSN: 1759-7811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2010.0007
- Nixon, M. (2010) Beckett – Frisch – Dürrenmatt. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 22 ISSN: 0927-3131
- Nixon, M. (2010) Beckett and Germany in the 1930s: the development of a poetics. In: Gontarski , S. , (eds.) A companion to Samuel Beckett. Wiley-Blackwell , Oxford, UK. pp. 130-142. ISBN: 9781405158695
- Nixon, M. (2010) Belacqua revididus: Beckett’s short story 'Echo’s Bones’. Limit(e) Beckett , 1 pp. 92-101. ISSN: 2105-1119
- Nixon, M. and Van Hulle, D. , eds. (2010) Beckett and Germany. Journal of Beckett Studies , 19. Edinburgh University Press (2). , UK. pp 128. ISBN: 9780748641390
- Nixon, M. , eds. (2010) Samuel Beckett: texts for nothing and other shorter prose, 1950-1976. Faber , London. ISBN: 9780571244621
- Nixon, M. (2009) Between art-world and life-world: Beckett's 'Dream of Fair to Middling Women'. In: Maude, U. and Feldman, M. , (eds.) Beckett and Phenomenology. Continuum Literary Studies Continuum , London. pp. 97-108. ISBN: 9780826497147
- Nixon, M. (2009) Writing myself into the ground. In: Barfield, S. , Feldman, M. , Tew, P. , (eds.) Beckett and Death. Continuum Literary Studies Continuum (2). , London. pp. 22-30. ISBN: 9780826498359
- Nixon, M. and Hulle, D. (2009) Beckett's library: from marginalia to notebooks. In: Guardamagna, D. and Sebellin, R. , (eds.) The Tragic Comedy of Samuel Beckett. Laterza , Rome. pp. 57-74. ISBN: 9788842090700
- Nixon, M. (2009) Between gospel and prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937. In: Kennedy, S. and Weiss, K. , (eds.) Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive. Palgrave MacMillan pp. 31-46. ISBN: 9780230619449
- Nixon, M. (2009) Beckett publishing/publishing Beckett in the 1930s. Variants , 6 pp. 209-219. ISSN: 1573-3084
- Nixon, M. (2009) Samuel Beckett's ‘Film Vidéo-Cassette projet’. Journal of Beckett Studies , 18 (1-2). pp. 32-43. ISSN: 1759-7811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E0309520709000259
- Nixon, M. (2009) "Infernal streams": Beckett's rivers . Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 20 pp. 33-47. ISSN: 0927-3131
- Nixon, M. , eds. (2009) The international reception of Samuel Beckett. Continuum Reception Studies Continuum Publishing Group , London. pp 336. ISBN: 9780826495815
- Nixon, M. (2008) "Unutterably Faint": Beckett’s late English poetry . Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics , 6 pp. 507-521. ISSN: 1534-7877
- Nixon, M. (2007) The remains of trace: intra- and intertextual transferences in Beckett’s 'Mirlitonnades' manuscripts. Journal of Beckett Studies , 16 (1 & 2). pp. 121-134. ISSN: 1759-7811
- van Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2007) All sturm and no drang. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 18. Rodopi
- Nixon, M. (2007) 'Text-void': silent words in Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett. In: Feldman, M. and Nixon, M. , (eds.) Beckett’s literary legacies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle. pp. 152-168. ISBN: 9781847182814
- van Hulle, D. and Nixon, M. (2007) “Holo and unholo”: the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 18 pp. 313-322. ISSN: 0927-3131 (special issue 'All sturm and no drang')
- Nixon, M. (2007) Samuel Beckett and Romanticism in the 1930s. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 18 pp. 61-76. ISSN: 0927-3131 (special issue 'All sturm and no drang')
- Nixon, M. (2007) Ewangelia i zakaz: Beckett i nazistowskie Niemcy. Kwartalnik Artystyczny , 53 (1). pp. 69-78. ISSN: 1232–2105
- Nixon, M. (2007) Gospel und Verbot: Beckett und Nazi Germany. In: Giesing, M. , Hartel, G. , Veit, C. , (eds.) Das Raubage in der Stadt: Beckett liest Hamburg. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen. pp. 69-78. ISBN: 9783835301931
- Feldman, M. and Nixon, M. , eds. (2007) Samuel Beckett's literary legacies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle. pp 240. ISBN: 9781847182814
- Nixon, M. (2007) Solitude(s) and creative fidgets: Beckett reading Rainer Maria Rilke. Litteraria Pragensia , 17 (33). pp. 6-18. ISSN: 0862-8424 (special issue 'Samuel Beckett: textual genesis and reception')
- Nixon, M. (2006) 'Writing': die Bedeutung der Deutschlandreise 1936/37 für Becketts schriftstellerische Entwicklung. In: Dittrich, L. , Veit, C. , Wichner, E. , (eds.) "Obergeschoss still closed": Samuel Beckett in Berlin 1936/37. Matthes & Seitz , Berlin. pp. 103-122. ISBN: 9783882219203
- Nixon, M. (2006) 'Guess where': from reading to writing in Beckett. Genetic Joyce Studies , 16 ISSN: 2031-9002
- Nixon, M. (2006) “Scraps of German”: Samuel Beckett reading German literature. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 16 pp. 259-282. ISSN: 0927-3131 (special issue 'Notes diverse holo[graph]')
- Nixon, M. (2005) Samuel Beckett’s presence in modern Irish poetry. Yearbook of English Studies , 35 pp. 43-57. ISSN: 2222-4289