SAMUEL BECKETT SPEAKERS



Luce Irigaray One of the most celebrated contemporary Continental philosopher and author of 20 books. Her most recent publications translated into English are Between East and West: From Singularity to Community and The Way of Love.

J .M.Coetzee Internationally recognised as one of the finest contemporary novelists writing in English, Coetzee has twice won the Booker prize.

Herbert Blau, the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. He was co-founder and co-director of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco (1952-65), and later co-director of the Repertory Theater of the Lincoln Center in New York (1965-68). His last extended work in the theatre was as the artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN (1968-81), the groundwork for which was prepared in the early seventies at California Institute of the Arts.

H. Porter Abbott, professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Chris Ackerley, associate professor of English at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Linda Ben-Zvi, Professor emerita in English and Theatre, Colorado State University, is now Senior Professor of Theatre at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Mary Bryden, Professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University.

Bruno Clement, Professor of French Literature at the University of Paris.

Ruby Cohn, a renowned theatre scholar is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Drama at University of California, Davis.

Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London.

Colin Duckworth has published widely on modern French literature and theatre, and is now a freelance writer, actor and director.

Gerry Dukes lectures in literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick in Ireland.

Stan Gontarski professor of English at Florida State University who specialises in 20th century Irish Studies, Anglo-European Modernism and performance theory. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships.

Michael Guest, Professor at Shizuoka University's Faculty of Information and Graduate School of Informatics, both of which he co-founded. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Beckett's later prose.

Sjef Houppermans, Professor of Modern French Literature at Leiden University, Holland.

Xerxes Mehta, current president of the Samuel Beckett Society, is the Artistic Director of the Maryland Stage Company and teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Yann Mevel, Professor of Letters at the University of Rennes.

Angela Moorjani, Professor of French and Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland.

Peggy Phelan is the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts at Stanford University. From 1997 to 1999, she was a fellow of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America. From 1985 to 2002, she worked in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her work has been performed at the London International Festival of Theatre, the AIR gallery in New York, and the Women's International Playwrights Festivals in Adelaide, Australia and Galway, Ireland.

Antonia Rodriguez-Gago is Profesora Titular de Literatura Inglesa in the Universidad Aut›noma de Madrid. She is also coordinator of Drama and Theatre Studies in the Department of Filolog­a Inglesa of the Universidad Aut›noma de Madrid.

Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English Language and Drama Studies at Aoyama Gakuin University.

Yoshiki Tajiri holds an M.A. in English from the University of Tokyo and University of London. He is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis on Beckett and the prosthetic body, to be submitted to the University of London. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo.

Anthony Uhlmann is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney

Wendy Ishii, Artistic director of For Collins, Colorado's Bas Bleu Theatre Company, will perform in Seance, written by Eric Prince who was heavily influenced by Beckett's Happy Days. Prince is a Colorado State University theater professor and internationally recognized Beckett scholar.

Bas Bleu gave Seance its American premiere in 1997, when Prince was a theater lecturer at the University of Scarborough in England.

Laura Jones, director of the CSU theatre program, is also in Sydney to present her paper on the collaborative effort between CSU and Bas Bleu in producing Beckett's late prose piece, Ill Seen, Ill Said, which she directed in 1998.