Thomas Thoelen

Thomas Thoelen obtained his FWO-funded PhD in Literary Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2019 (supervisors: Christophe Collard and Douglas Atkinson).

His research focuses primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, with articles having been published (and waiting to be published) in the peer-reviewed journal Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (vols. 28.2 and 32.2). A book chapter is also forthcoming in Beckett and Technology (eds. Mark Nixon, Einat Adar, and Galina Kiryushina; Edinburgh UP, 2021).

Other research interests include:

• (post)modernism;
• phenomenology;
• deconstructionism;
• (continental) philosophy;
• philosophy of technology;
• philosophy of language;
• literary theory;
• cultural theory;
• disability studies;
• James Joyce;
• Flann O’Brien;
• Thomas Pynchon;
• Bernard Stiegler;
• ...