Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor

Cluttered Universes brings Kantor’s and Beckett’s texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with deconstruction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism. It reads their artistic universes as ＂cluttered＂ with matter, objects, and other nonhuman visitors.

Michal Kisiel is a literary scholar, translator, editor, and assistant professor at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. In 2019, he received his PhD in literary studies. He has published in Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, ER(R)GO, Zoophilologica, and Review of International American Studies, among other places. He is an editorial team member of ER(R)GO: Theory - Literature - Culture and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Commission on Literary History (Katowice Branch). His academic interests include experimental literature, deconstruction, materialist theories of the nonhuman, contemporary poetry, theatre, and drama, and environmental humanities.