Anthony Uhlmann works on literature and philosophy. He was editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies from 2007-2013 and has written two books on Samuel Beckett, Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge UP, 1999) and Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge UP, 2006). He has also the author of Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (Bloomsbury, 2011) and editor of a book on Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One (Sydney University Press, 2020). His most recent academic monograph is J. M. Coetzee, Truth, Meaning, Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is currently working on an ARC project called 'Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature' http://www.formsofworldliterature.com
His first novel is Saint Antony in His Desert (UWAP, 2018, https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/saint-antony-in-his-desert), and he is the producer of a new version of Samuel Beckett's television play What Where, Directed by Walter Asmus, (https://vimeo.com/152509694).
Experience
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2013–presentPresident, Australian University Heads of English, AUHE
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2012–presentDirector, Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney
Education
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1995University of Sydney, PhD
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1989Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada, MA
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1987University of Sydney, Hons (1st Class)
Publications
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2012Journal of Beckett Studies, Edinburgh University Press
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2011Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Bloomsbury Academic
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2006Arnold Geulincx, Ethics, with Samuel Beckett's Notes, Brill Press
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2006Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image, Cambridge University Press
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1999Beckett and Poststructuralism, Cambridge University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2014JM Coetzee and Meaning in Literature
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- ARC
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2007Literature as a Way of Thinking
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- ARC
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2003Samuel Beckett and the Ethics of Arnold Geulincx
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- ARC
Research Areas
- Literary Studies (2005)
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing (1904)
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