Dr. Julie Bates

• Julie Bates, Beckett's art of salvage: writing and material imagination, 1932-1987, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 350ppBook, 2017
• Beckett at the Gate in, editor(s)Nicholas Grene and Christopher Morash , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp478 - 493, [Julie Bates]Book Chapter, 2016
• Writing homelessness: the fugitive literature of Samuel Beckett and W.G Sebald in, editor(s)Dorothea Depner and Guy Woodward , Irish Culture and Wartime Europe 1938-48, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2015, pp150 - 175, [Julie Bates]Book Chapter, 2015
• Beckett's Maternal Miscellany in, editor(s)Claudia Reese and Yvonne O'Keeffe , New Voices: Inherited Lines, New York, Peter Lang, 2013, pp20 , [Julie Bates]Book Chapter, 2013
• Humble Relics: Beckett and van Gogh's old boots in, editor(s)Rui Carvalho Homem , Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012, pp20 , [Julie Bates]Book Chapter, 2012
• Julie Bates, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans, 2013, - 10Miscellaneous, 2013
• Julie Bates, A menace to hedgehogs: Larkin and Beckett, 2012, - 10Miscellaneous, 2012
• Julie Bates, Chasing floating heads from Beckett's fiction to drama and film (Keynote Lecture), International Beckett Conference, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, November, 2014, University of GuanajuatoInvited Talk, 2014
• Julie Bates and Aliye F. Mataracı, Costume as a Manifestation of European Fascination with the Ottomans, Don Juan Archiv Wien International Symposium: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre VIII, Pera Museum, Istanbul, May 2015, 2015Conference Paper, 2015
• Julie Bates, Protestant middle class values embedded in Beckett's bowler hats, Class and Culture in Twentieth-Century Ireland, St John's College, University of Cambridge, April 2015, 2015Conference Paper, 2015
• Julie Bates, Greatcoats in Beckett and André Kertész: paternal heirloom and costume staple, Autobiography in Context, University of Rijeka, Croatia, November 2014, 2014Conference Paper, 2014
• Julie Bates, Writing homelessness: Beckett's creative response to the Second World War, Writing Home: Irish Culture and Wartime Europe 1938-48, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD, June 2013, edited by Dorothea Depner and Guy Woodward , 2013Conference Paper, 2013
• Julie Bates, Comic cripples and beggars: Beckett, Adam and Paul and Hieronymus Bosch, Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland, Humanities Institute, UCD, July 2012, edited by UCD , 2012Conference Paper, 2012
• Julie Bates, Beckett's Greatcoats: Paternal Museums, Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, England, June 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
• Julie Bates, Beckett and van Gogh's Old Boots, Relational Forms I: An International Conference on Literature and the Arts, Faculdade de Letras de Universidade do Porto, Portugal, November 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, Beckett's rough treatment of the bowler hat, Ireland and Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, Beckett's Maternal Miscellany, Irish Literatures and Culture: New and Old Knowledges: IASIL Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, July 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, Peephole Art: Beckett and Video Art, Electronic Information and the Visual Arts: EVA Annual Conference, Covent Garden, London, England, July 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, Hats and Beds: Beckett's Maternal Objects, New Voices: Inherited Lines, University of Limerick, Ireland, May 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, But Is It Still Theatre, Eh Joe?, ISTR Annual Conference, School of Drama, TCD, April 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
• Julie Bates, Elizabeth Bowen's charged materials: clothing & the fabric of time, International Conference on Elizabeth Bowen, Warsaw, Poland, 5 July 2016, edited by Interdisciplinary Research Foundation , 2016Conference Paper, 2016
• Word & Image, 38, 2, (2022), 1-71p, Julie Bates and Lea Vuong, [Editors and Authors]Journal, 2022, URL
• Julie Bates, The political and aesthetic power of the everyday in Beckett's Happy Days, Journal of Beckett Studies, 28, (1), 2019, p52 - 66Journal Article, 2019
• Julie Bates, Beckett, Brian O'Doherty and Brian Dillon: intermediality and the future anterior, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, 32, (1), 2020, p129 - 143Journal Article, 2020
• Julie Bates, 'I do, I undo, I redo': Samuel Beckett and Louise Bourgeois, Journal of Beckett Studies, 31, (1), 2023, p64 - 82Journal Article, 2023
• 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, 2025
• 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, 2020
• Julie Bates, Staging Beckett , Review of Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland & Staging Beckett in Great Britain (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2016) , by Trish McTighe and David Tucker , Irish University Review, 48, (1), 2018Review, 2018
• Julie Bates, Beckett's Political Imagination, Review of Beckett's Political Imagination, by Emilie Morin , Textual Practice, 32, (6), 2018, p1027-1029Review, 2018, URL
• Julie Bates, Beckett's Birds, 2019, -Miscellaneous, 2019
• Julie Bates, From Beckett's sedulous fiction to Brian Dillon's essayism, 2018, -Miscellaneous, 2018
• Julie Bates, '"The boldest jump-cut - the most daring time-shift, the most outrageous deduction - ever": Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 2018, -Miscellaneous, 2018
• Julie Bates, Louise Bourgeois's fabric works: time-charged materials and radical family portraits, 2017, -Miscellaneous, 2017
• Julie Bates, Ruined Time: Samuel Beckett and Brian Dillon, 2017, -Miscellaneous, 2017
• 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, 2024
• Julie Bates and Lea Vuong, At Home with the Artist: Exploring the Louise Bourgeois Archive, Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 38, (1), 2022, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2022
• Julie Bates, "I do, I undo, I redo": Louise Bourgeois and Samuel Beckett, Journal of Beckett Studies, 32, (1), 2023, p1-16Journal Article, 2023
• Julie Bates, Erica Van Horn's creative exercises, Irish Studies Review, 31, (1), 2023, p1-29Journal Article, 2023
• Julie Bates and Lea Vuong, Interview with Maggie Wright, Louise Bourgeois Archive, The Easton Foundation, Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 38, (1), 2022, p11 - 18Journal Article, 2022
• 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, p10Journal Article, 2025
• Julie Bates, F for Françoise? Delayed Justice and Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil's Writing, 2024Journal Article, 2024
• Julie Bates, 'Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift': radical intimacy with environments in Beckett's writing, Beckett's Environments, University of Exeter (online), 1-2 December 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023

• Julie Bates, D enite Huseinović: conjuring identity, Review of Otisci u Prostoru: 'Prints in Space', by D enite Huseinović , Oslobodenje, 2014, 2014, p1Review
• Julie Bates, 'Coups, Haircuts and Cockroaches', Sarajevo, Embassy of Ireland, Ljubljana, 2015, - 100Fiction and creative prose
• Julie Bates, 'Book launch, public reading & exhibition', Galerija Mak, Sarajevo, Embassy of Ireland, Ljubljana, 2015, -Exhibition
• Julie Bates, 'Creative Responses to Samuel Beckett's Writing', 2015, -Exhibition
• Julie Bates, Public interview with academics from UNAM and TCD to introduce performance of Beckett, A Night of Samuel Beckett, La Ciudadela library, Mexico City, November , 2014, Embassy of Ireland in Mexico CityInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, 'A Day to Remember', 2015, - 50Fiction and creative prose
• Julie Bates, D enita Huseinović: conjuring identity, Talk to open Prints in Space exhibition by D enita Huseinović, Gallery at the International University of Sarajevo, October, 2014, Gallery at the International University of SarajevoInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, The material imagination of Orhan Pamuk, University of Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey, July , 2014, Department of English Literature, University of BilkentInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, "Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me": Beckett in the Irish imagination, Talk to open Irish Embassy exhibition on Beckett, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, March , 2014, Embassy of Ireland in Mexico CityInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Roundtable on Irish literature, Roundtable on Irish literature with French, German, Colombian and Irish academics, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, March , 2014, Embassy of Ireland in Mexico CityInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans, Dublintellectual Conversations on Culture Series, Ormond Wine Bar, Dublin, March , 2012, DublintellectualInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence, Literature and Memory: A roundtable discussion with invited guests on the theme of literature and memory, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD, 13 April, 2016Invited Talk
• Author: Julie Bates. Translator: Emina Jeleskovic, Otisci u Prostoru (Prints in Space), Review of Otisci u Prostoru, by D enita Huseinović , Oslobodenje, 2014Review
• Julie Bates, Samuel Beckett's miscellaneous rubbish, 2017, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Julie Bates. co-author: Rosie Lavan, A literary treasure map of Trinity College Dublin, 2017, -Miscellaneous, URL
• Julie Bates, Dragana Juri ić's YU: The Lost Country, DU Hist Herstory salon, Hist conversation room, GMB, TCD, 11 March 2019, 2019, DU HistInvited Talk
• 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 AntwerpInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Beckett and Pierre Huyghe: challenges to human exceptionalism, Neurohumanities panel, TLRH Coffee Morning, Trinity Long Room Hub, 23 January 2019, 2019, TLRHInvited Talk
• 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, 2018Invited Talk
• 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, 2018Invited Talk
• Julie Bates. Public Interview with the author Kevin Breathnach, Kevin Breathnach in conversation with Julie Bates, 2018, -Miscellaneous
• 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, TCDInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Plenary Discussion: Beckett and Disability, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD, Trinity Long Room Hub, 1 August 2018, 2018, Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCDInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Samuel Beckett and Louise Bourgeois: floating heads and creative imaginations, 2016, -Miscellaneous
• 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 - 10Conference Paper
• Julie Bates, The personal essay in Ireland today, 2019, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Marina Carr: By the Bog of Cats, 2018, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Samuel Beckett in Paris: arriving from Dublin "like coming out of gaol in April", 2018, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Animals and Ethics in Kafka and Beckett, 2017, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Ibsen's A Doll's House, Evening Lecture Series, School of English, TCD, 2016, 2016Oral Presentation
• Julie Bates, Gallery@50 Exhibition in Long Room, 2020, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Bloomsday Lecture on the relationship between museums and literature, Annual Bloomsday Lecture, Collins Barracks, National Museum of Ireland, June, 2017, National Museum of IrelandInvited Talk
• Julie Bates, Louise Bourgeois's fabric books and Leanne Shapton's Important Artifacts, Monthly Discussion Group on affinities between literature and visual arts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD, 2017, Douglas Hyde GalleryInvited Talk
• Julie Bates and Feargal Whelan, A Stain Upon the Silence, Awkward Silences in Literature, Beckett Theatre, TCD, edited by Trinity Week 2019: Silence , 2019Oral Presentation
• Julie Bates and Jane Maxwell, A Stain Upon the Silence, 2019, -Miscellaneous
• Julie Bates, Writing with air in The Third Policeman (Keynote Lecture), 110 Myles: Flann O'Brien at a Distance, Vienna (online), July 2021, 2021Conference Paper

RESEARCH My research interests include Samuel Beckett, contemporary Irish writing, modernist literature and visual art, small press publishing, material culture, and the creative use of archives. My first 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. My current research aims to disrupt the masculinist heritage in which Beckett has been inscribed. I am working on a project with Dúnlaith Bird focused on the writing of Suzanne Dumesnil, who was married to Beckett. My current book project has the preliminary 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. In 2022 I co-edited a bilingual special issue of 'Word & Image' focused on the archives of the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. SUPERVISION I welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students or postdoctoral researchers whose research interests align with mine.

• Title

  RIA Charlemont Grant - Research trip to Beinecke Library, Yale University
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Royal Irish Academy
  Date From

  20 October 2019
  Date To

  27 October 2019
• Title

  Animating the Archive: Creative Legacies from Samuel Beckett Collections
  Summary

  This was seed funding for a collaboration between the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading (Prof Steven Matthews), and the School of English and Library at Trinity College Dublin, to establish Beckett Creative Fellowships at Trinity.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity College Philanthropy
  Date From

  2022
• Title

  IRC New Foundations - Residency in Louise Bourgeois Foundation, New York, U.S
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
  Date From

  5 November 2017
  Date To

  12 November 2017
• Title

  Exploring Heritage Collections (HCI:C5-WP3 CPD Heritage Collection)
  Summary

  Exploring Heritage Collections is a 5-year project funded by the HEA's Human Capital Initiative grant led by Dr Julie Bates and Dr Jane Carroll. The project is a collaboration between the School of English and 10 partners: The Library of Trinity College Dublin: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; The National Library of Ireland; The Irish Film Institute; Dublin City Library and Archive; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; The National Archives; Marsh's Library; The Hugh Lane Gallery; The National Visual Arts Library at NCAD; The Digital Repository of Ireland.
  Funding Agency

  Higher Education Authority
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2025

Heritage, archive and museum studies, Literary studies, Visual arts, Other creative arts,

• School of Humanities Postgraduate Research Studentship 2010
• Trinity Foundation Scholarship 2004
• Royal Irish Academy Charlemont grant, for research visit to Beinecke library, Yale University 2019
• Irish Research Council New Foundations Fellowship 2016
• Faculty of Arts Benefaction Fund, TCD, for Word & Image special issue 2019
• Charlemont Scholar, Royal Irish Academy 2016
• Irish Research Council Humanities and Social Sciences PhD Award 2011
• Faculty of Arts Benefactions Fund for Cambridge University Press monograph 2016

• Executive Board member of the Samuel Beckett Society 2027
• Editorial Board of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice ongoing
• Books Editor and Board member of the Irish University Review 2025

• Co-Director of the Early Career Scholars Network in Beckett Studies 2023-24
• Member of Royal Irish Academy Early Career Focus Group 2018