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MA (Cant) PhD (Tor)

Email chris.ackerley@otago.ac.nz
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Projects

The Malcolm Lowry Project: Under the Volcano

The Beckett Monad, in build-up and final form.

Expertise

My field is Modernism, with expertise in Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett, and research interests in Nabokov, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, J. G. Farrell, Borges and Roa Bastos. My research speciality is annotation.

Current research

My current major projects are:
(1) a study of Samuel Beckett and Science (London: Continuum);
(2) annotating three works by Malcolm Lowry: (i) a long-lost but newly-discovered novel, In Ballast to the White Sea, (ii) the 1940 Volcano, and (iii) Swinging the Maelstrom; as part of the EMiC (Editing Manuscripts in Canada) project, in association with the U Ottawa Press;
(3) a Marsden-funded study of the modernist aesthetic, with reference to its Medieval roots and traditions, in association with the Centre for Modernism and Christianity (University of Bergen).

I am on the advisory boards of the Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today (Amsterdam), Historicising Modernism (London: Continuum P), Modernism and Christianity (U Bergen), Otago French Notes (U Otago) and the Ionesco-Beckett Research Centre (National University of Theatre and Cinematography, Bucharest).

Publications

Ackerley, C. J., & Gontarski, S. E. (2004). The grove companion to Samuel Beckett: A reader's guide to his works, life, and thought. New York: Grove Press, 686p. Authored Book - Research

Ackerley, C. J. (Ed.). (2009). Watt: Samuel Beckett. London: Faber, 223p. Edited Book - Research

Ackerley, C. (2010). Obscure locks, simple keys: The annotated 'Watt'. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 296p. Authored Book - Research

Ackerley, C. (2010). Demented particulars: The annotated 'Murphy'. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 264p. Authored Book - Research

Ackerley, C. & Large, D. (2009). The Malcolm Lowry Project: Under the volcano: A hypertextual companion [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/lowry Other Research Output

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