Anthony Uhlmann

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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

  • 2013–present
    President, Australian University Heads of English, AUHE
  • 2012–present
    Director, Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney

Education

  • 1995 
    University of Sydney, PhD
  • 1989 
    Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada, MA
  • 1987 
    University of Sydney, Hons (1st Class)

Publications

  • 2012
    Journal of Beckett Studies, Edinburgh University Press
  • 2011
    Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2006
    Arnold Geulincx, Ethics, with Samuel Beckett's Notes, Brill Press
  • 2006
    Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image, Cambridge University Press
  • 1999
    Beckett and Poststructuralism, Cambridge University Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2014
    JM Coetzee and Meaning in Literature
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    ARC
  • 2007
    Literature as a Way of Thinking
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    ARC
  • 2003
    Samuel 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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