Paul Lawley

Dr Paul Lawley - ()

Job title: Lecturer in English, School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 5, 4 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585113
Alternative telephone: +44 (0)0000 000000
Email: P.Lawley@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background

BA (hons), Bristol, 1975.

PhD, Warwick, 1979.

Teaching interests

Modern drama

Contemporary Irish drama

Romanticism

Seventeenth & eighteenth century literature

Reading poetry

Staff serving as external examiners

External Examiner, PhD:

University of Reading, 1996.

University of Delhi, India, 1997.

Research interests

Drama and fiction of Samuel Beckett

Contemporary Irish drama

Literary influence

Publications
'"The Rapture of Vertigo": Beckett's Turning-Point', Modern Language Review, Vol. 95, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 28-40. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7026/is_1_95/ai_n28818236/?tag=content;col1
Reprinted in Sisler T. J. (ed), Drama Criticism, Vol. 22 (Thomson Gale 2004), pp. 69-78.

'That Time and the Dynamics of Being', Journal of Beckett Studies, NS Vol. 10, nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002), pp. 173-86.
Volume of journal also published as book:
Caselli D, Connor S & Salisbury L (eds.), Other Becketts , Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2002,. Pagination identical to above.
Essay reprinted in Sisler T. J. (ed), Drama Criticism, Vol. 22 (Thomson Gale, 2004), pp. 115-21.

'"The Grim Journey": Beckett Listens to Schubert', Moorjani A. & Veit C. (eds.), Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 11: Endlessness in the Year 2000/Fin sans fin en l'an 2000 (Rodopi, 2001), pp. 255-67. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/sbta/2002/00000011/00000001/art00031?token=004011eb05a666f3a7b2f7c316a6f556b656676763c49266d652f8aa83a03c66

‘Endgame in the Subjunctive’, Journal of Beckett Studies, NS Vol. 13, no. 1 (Fall 2004), pp.1-11. Reprinted in Gontarski S. E. (ed.), The Beckett Critical Reader (Edinburgh UP, 2013). Forthcoming.

'Tradition and Failure: Coleridge/Beckett', Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 18: 'All Sturm and no Drang': Beckett and Romanticism (Rodopi, 2007), pp. 31-46.

'Waiting for Godot': Character Studies (Continuum, 2008).

'The Excluded Child: Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Beckett's Endgame', Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 21: 'Where Never Before': Beckett's Poetics of Elsewhere (Rodopi, 2009), pp. 151-63. http://www.uantwerpen.be/download.aspx?c=*SBECKETT&n=50426&ct=50097&e=206932

'Murphy's Beckett: Legacy and Agon', Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 23: Filiations & Connecting Lines (Rodopi, 2011), pp. 215-29.

Other academic activities
Member of Advisory Board, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (Rodopi), 2010-

Links
http://plymouth.academia.edu/PaulLawley