S. E. Gontarski

Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
WMS 430
sgontarski@fsu.edu
20th and 21st-century Irish studies, Modernism, performance theory, History of Text Technologies (HoTT) and Modern(ist) book history

S. E. GONTARSKI, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English, Ph.D., Ohio State (1974): writer, director and filmmaker who specializes in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S., and European Modernism, performance theory, History of Text Technologies and Modern(ist) book history. He has been a resident Fellow at the Djerassi Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, the Bogliasco Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.  He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships, has been Guest Editor of the following: American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies and Drammaturgia.

He is also General Editor of four book series:
1) "Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature and Philosophy" with the University Press of Florida;
2) "Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance" with Anthem Press, London;
3) "Understanding Philosophy / Understanding Modernism" (with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison) from Bloomsbury;
4) "Other Becketts" from Edinburgh University Press.

He edited the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1989-2008, and currently serves as Co-Editor with its publication by Edinburgh University Press.

BOOKS

ESSAYS AND LECTURES

FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS

  • Visiting Professor, University of California, Riverside, 1982-83
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1983-84
  • Research Associate, University of California, Riverside, 1983-84
  • Senior Fulbright Professor, Australia, New Zealand, 1984-85
  • Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Foundation, 1986
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University-Long Beach, 1987-88
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1993-94
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies and the School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College, 1994
  • William Evans Professor, School of Humanities, University of Otago, Dunedid, New Zealand, 1994
  • Lansdowne Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 1996
  • Fulbright Professor of American and Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1998-9
  • Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 2001
  • Academic Director, Florida State University London Study Center, 2005
  • Research Fellow of Theoretical Studies of Theatre (Western/Comparative Theatre Studies), 21st Century COE [Center of Excellence] Institute of Theatre Research and the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Tokyo, fall of 2006
  • Director, Florida State University in Ireland, 2008
  • Resident Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Spring 2011
  • Professor vistante, PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM PERFORMANCES CULTURAIS: TEORIAS E PRÁTICAS DA PERFORMANCE, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) e Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) (2012)
  • Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, March 2016

IN THE NEWS

 

  • Grove Press web page, “Grove at Home”: “Oh, Nothing, Just Camcorder Footage of Samuel Beckett Watching a TV Production of His Own Play”: Samuel Beckett! Watching his work! On VHS! This utterly marvelous clip also features some commentary by Professor Stanley Gontarski, co-author of THE GROVE COMPANION TO SAMUEL BECKETT, as well as editor of and consultant on a great many of our Beckett books. This clip cannot be watched enough times. Try it, you’ll see”: https://youtu.be/1ohAssRQsjM
  • Keynote address Charles University, Department of Philosophy, 11 April 2016, "Samuel Beckett in Performance: The Questions We Ask” at The XI Prague Interpretation Colloqium, Chaos and Form: Echoes of Beckett in Literature and the Arts. Published in Litteraria Pragensia (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University). Eds. Tomáš Koblížek & Petr Koťátko, 2016, pp. 4-25. [Watch Here]
  • Interview in Brazil, 2010 [Watch Here]
  • Interview for "Metropolis" on RTS (Radio Television Serbia) 2 June 2011 (final few minutes of the show). [Watch Here]
  • NPR Profile of Grove Press Publisher Barney Rosset[download mp3 file]
  • Irish Times feature
  • Trinity College, Dublin
  • Lecture in Lódz, May 2014
External links
Amazon Author Page
Journal of Beckett Studies (JOBS) Books
Google Scholar page
History of Text Technologies
Publications By This Author

 

 

 
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