Professor Anthony Uhlmann

Anthony Uhlmann

Biography

Prof Anthony Uhlmann is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge UP, 1999) and Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge UP, 2006) and co-editer of The Ethics of Arnold Geulincx with Han van Ruler and Martin Wilson (among other books). His main research interests concern the interrelation of literature and philosophy, and the nature of literary form. He is just completing a project examining Modernist Aesthetics, focusing on the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov. He is President of the Australasian Association for Literature(opens in a new window), and the Chief Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies(opens in a new window).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Samuel Beckett; Literature and Philosophy; Literary Form.

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Grants / Current Projects

2005-2007, ARC Discovery Grant, for the project ‘The Image of Thought: Literature as a way of thinking’. Source: Australian Research Council.

2001-2003, ARC Large Grant, for the project ‘Samuel Beckett and the Ethics of Arnold Geulincx’. Source: Australian Research Council.

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Awards and Recognition

2008, Shortlisted for the Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship for Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image.

2003, Winner, ‘Best Special Event’ category, Helpmann Awards (Australian Entertainment Industry Association, ‘AEIA’ Awards) with The Sydney Festival, The Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre and the Gate Theatre for ‘Celebrating Samuel Beckett’ (which included the Samuel Beckett Symposium Sydney, ‘after Beckett d’après Beckett’ convened by Anthony Uhlmann).

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Publications

Books

Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England, 2006. ISBN 0-521-86520-4.

Beckett and Poststructuralism, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England, February 2008. ISBN: 0-521-05243-2. Paperback Edition of book originally published in 1999.

Edited Books

Literature and Sensation, ed. Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan, and Stephen McLaren, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

Borderless Beckett, Beckett sans frontiers, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 19, Rodopi Press, The Netherlands, ed. Minako Okamuro, Naoya Mori, Bruno Clément, Sjef Houppermans, Angela Moorjani, Anthony Uhlmann. ISBN 978-90-420-2393-2. 2008.

Arnold Geulincx, Ethics, with Samuel Beckett’s Notes, edited by Han van Ruler, Martin Wilson and Anthony Uhlmann, translated by Martin Wilson, Brill Press: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006. ISBN90-04-15467-1.

Beckett after Beckett. Edited with an introduction by Anthony Uhlmann and S.E. Gontrarski. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN 0-8130-2909-0.

After Beckett/D’après Beckett, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 14 (Serial Monograph), edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, Rodopi Press: Amsterdam and New York, 2004. ISBN 90-420-1972-7.

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Professional Affiliations

Chief Editor The Journal of Beckett Studies(opens in a new window), (since January 2008), associate editors include S. E. Gontarski, Chris Ackerley, and Dirk Van Hulle.

President and co-founder of the Australasian Association for Literature (founded 2007). This academic society hosts an annual conference on literature which draws scholars from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Two conferences ‘Literature and Sensation’ (2007), and ‘Literature and History’ (2008) have so far been staged. In 2009 the theme for the conference will be ‘Literature and Politics’(opens in a new window).

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