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Dr. Julie Bates

Associate Professor (English)
      
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Dr. Julie Bates

Associate Professor (English)

 batesju@tcd.ie

 


I completed my PhD in the School of English, under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Grene. My dissertation was the starting point of my book 'Beckett's Art of Salvage' (Cambridge University Press, 2017; paperback, 2020). Since completing my PhD, I have held teaching positions in universities in Mexico and Bosnia, and given lectures in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United States. I returned to the School of English as a Teaching Fellow in 2015, became Assistant Professor in 2017, Associate Professor in 2023, and was elected a Fellow of the College in 2024.
  Erica Van Horn and Coracle Press   Irish Writing   Modernism   Samuel Beckett
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Executive Board member of the Samuel Beckett Society 2023 2027
Books Editor and Board member of the Irish University Review 2022 2025
Editorial Board of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 2021 ongoing
Julie Bates, Beckett's art of salvage: writing and material imagination, 1932-1987, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 350pp, Notes: [Paperback published 2020], Book, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, 'Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift': Radical intimacy with insects, plants, and mud in texts by Beckett and Clarice Lispector, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, 2025, p10 , Journal Article, APPROVED
Materiality/Animality/Humanity, or The Uses of a Hedgehog in, editor(s)Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle , The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, pp1-18 , [Julie Bates], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Julie Bates, 'I do, I undo, I redo': Samuel Beckett and Louise Bourgeois, Journal of Beckett Studies, 31, (1), 2023, p64 - 82, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Erica Van Horn's creative exercises, Irish Studies Review, 31, (1), 2023, p1-29 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Beckett, Brian O'Doherty and Brian Dillon: intermediality and the future anterior, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, 32, (1), 2020, p129 - 143, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Essayism in contemporary Ireland in, editor(s)Paige Reynolds , The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp228 - 243, [Julie Bates], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Louise Bourgeois, Through the Archives', Word & Image, 38, 2, (2022), 1-71p, Julie Bates and Lea Vuong, [Editors and Authors], Journal, PUBLISHED  URL
Writing with air in The Third Policeman in, editor(s)Paul Fagan, Katherine Ebury, John Greaney , Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines, Cork, Cork University Press, 2024, pp1-21 , [Julie Bates], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, The political and aesthetic power of the everyday in Beckett's Happy Days, Journal of Beckett Studies, 28, (1), 2019, p52 - 66, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Julie Bates, Samuel Beckett's miscellaneous rubbish, 2017, -, Notes: [ This was an article published in the Irish Times culture section to coincide with the publication of my monograph, Beckett's Art of Salvage (Cambridge UP, 2017).], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, "Every man for himself, assuming bees to be capable of such notions": Beckett's bioaesthetics, Beckett and the Nonhuman International Conference, Free University of Brussels, VUB, Belgium, 7-8 February 2019, 2019, Free University of Brussels and University of Antwerp, Notes: [Invited Keynote Lecture], Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Beckett and Pierre Huyghe: challenges to human exceptionalism, Neurohumanities panel, TLRH Coffee Morning, Trinity Long Room Hub, 23 January 2019, 2019, TLRH, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Stylish failure: traces of Beckett in contemporary Irish writing, Beckett International Foundation 30th Anniversary Research Seminar, Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading, UK, 24 November 2018, 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Julie Bates, Tim Robinson: Affective Geographies, 10th Anniversary of the International Flann O'Brien Society, University of Gdansk, Poland, 26-28 July 2021, edited by Paul Fagan, Katherine Ebury, John Greaney , 38, (1), Between.Pomiendzy Festival, University of Gdańsk, 2019, pp1 - 10, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Julie Bates, Husbanded hypochondria: illness and creativity in Beckett's fiction, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD, TLRH, 2 August 2018, 2018, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Samuel Beckett and Louise Bourgeois: floating heads and creative imaginations, 2016, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Plenary Discussion: Beckett and Disability, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD, Trinity Long Room Hub, 1 August 2018, 2018, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates, Panel debate: Irish writers on writing, Innovation and Experiment in Contemporary Irish Fiction. International Conference: KU Leuven, Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, 1 December 2018, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Julie Bates. co-author: Rosie Lavan, A literary treasure map of Trinity College Dublin, 2017, -, Notes: [This article was published to promote the two-day public event Remapping Trinity we co-organised, as part of Trinity Week 2017. The event was launched by Mary Robinson, former Chancellor of the University, and closed by the Provost Patrick Prendergast.], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Exploring Heritage Collections - HEA Human Capital Initiative. Co-PI with Dr Jane Carroll 2021-2025
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont scholar 2019
Faculty of Arts Benefaction Fund, TCD, for Word & Image special issue 2019
Irish Research Council New Foundations Fellowship 2016
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Scholar 2016
Faculty of Arts Benefactions Fund for Cambridge University Press monograph 2016
Irish Research Council Humanities and Social Sciences PhD Award 2011
School of Humanities Postgraduate Research Studentship 2010
Trinity Foundation Scholarship 2004
My research interests include Samuel Beckett, Modernist Literature and Visual Art, Irish Writing, Small Press Publishing, and Material Culture. My book, 'Beckett's Art of Salvage', was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 (paperback edition in 2020), and explored the material imagination of Beckett's writing. I have written about Beckett's creative affinities with women writers and artists, and the imaginative sympathy of his writing beyond the human. I am working on a project with Dúnlaith Bird focused on the writing of Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, who was married to Beckett. With Léa Vuong in 2022 I co-edited 'Louise Bourgeois: Through the Archives', a bilingual issue of 'Word and Image' focused on the French-American artist. My current book project has the working title 'Blow-In: Erica Van Horn in Ballybeg'. It is a study of the American writer and artist Erica Van Horn who has been living in rural Tipperary since 1996, where she runs Coracle Press with the poet Simon Cutts. Van Horn is a book artist who often takes as her subject matter her immediate daily environment. I welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students or postdoctoral researchers whose research interests align with mine.