Beckett Ongoing Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics

Michael Krimper teaches in the French and English departments at New York University, USA, where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature. His forthcoming book,  Out of Work: The Refusal of Literature from Melville to Blanchot,  examines the crystallization of an antiwork aesthetics and politics in late modernist writing and theory. He is also the editor of a recent special issue for the  Journal of Beckett Studies  that published Beckett’s lost translations on the Marquis de Sade. His articles, reviews, and translations have appeared in  New Literary History ,  diacritics ,  SubStance ,  parallax ,  October , the  Journal of Italian Philosophy , and the  Los Angeles Review of Books , among other venues.

Gabriel Quigley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. Combining comparative modernisms, continental philosophy, and postcolonial theory, his work focuses on retrieving concealed paradigms of possibility and freedom. His articles and translations have been published or are forthcoming in  Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui ,  French Studies Bulletin ,  Derrida Today ,  Critical Inquiry ,  Journal of Modern Literature , and  Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies .