S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

• Introduction “Towards a Minoritarian Criticism: The Questions We Ask”, S. E. GontarskiArt & Aesthetics”Deux besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma”, C. J. Ackerley“Siege Laid again: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage”, David Lloyd“Convulsive Aesthetics: “Beckett, Charcot, Chaplin”, Ulrika Maude“Pain Degree Zero”, Sam SloteFictions"Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels", Paul Stewart“A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity: Samuel Beckett’s Three Novels”, Andrew McFeaters“Evening, Night, and other Shades of Dark: Beckett’s Short Prose”, Tomasz WisniewskiA European Context“French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945-52”, Andrew Gibson“Beckett/Sade: Texts for Nothing”, John Pilling"Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation", Jean-Michel Rabaté“Beckett, Duthuit, and Ongoing Dialogue”, Anthony Uhlmann“Gloria SMH and Beckett’s Linguistic Encryptions”, Laura Salisbury"’I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’: Samuel Beckett and the Inter-War Avant-garde”, Peter Fifield“Beckett and Contemporary French Literature”, Sjef HoupermansAn Irish Context"Beckett and the ‘Irish’ Translation of Godot", Anthony Roche“Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in 1930s Dublin”, Emilie Morin“’Bid Us Sigh on’: Beckett and the Irish Big House”, Sean KennedyFilm, Radio & Television"A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy.", Graley Herren“’The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett’s Radio Plays”, Everett C. FrostLanguage / Writing“Was That a Point? Beckett's Punctuation”, Steven Connor“Beckett's Unpublished Canon”, Mark Nixon“Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship”, Dirk van Hulle“Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading”, Adam PiettePhilosophies“Beckett and Philosophy”, Matthew Feldman“’Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday, and Transcendental Empiricism”, S. E. Gontarski"Beckett, Modernism and Christianity", Erik TonningTheatre & Performance“‘Oh lovely Art’: Beckett and Music”, David Tucker“Victimized Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake in Beckett’s Catastrophe”, Laura Peja"Beyond Eliot and Joyce: Restaging Solo Literary Performance in A Piece of Monologue", John Paul Riquelme“Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert’s Contribution to Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Aesthetics”, Anna McMullan“Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude”, Annamaria Cascetta“Performing the Formless”, Geneviève ChevallierGlobal Beckett"Facing other Windows: Beckett in South America", Fábio de Souza Andrade“Beckett in Belgrade”, Predrag Todorovic; “Struggling With a Dead Language”: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-garde Theatre in the 1960s”, Mariko Hori Tanaka

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