Professor Garin Dowd

Professor in Film, Literature and Media

London School of Film, Media and Design

garin.dowd@uwl.ac.uk

I read for a combined honours degree in English Literature and Philosophy at University College, Cork in Ireland.

My PhD thesis combined my interests in literature and philosophy and explored the framing of philosophical concepts in the work of several twentieth-century literary authors, among them James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Maurice Blanchot.

From 2001 I divided my time between the then English Literature department (where I specialised in modernism and literary theory) and the Media department (where I taught modules in Film Theory). My first book (co-written with Fergus Daly, and published in 2003 by Manchester University Press) was devoted to a study of the career of the French film director Leos Carax.

Since then I have published an edited volume, Genre Matters: Essays in Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Lesley Stevenson and Jeremy Strong) and a monograph entitled Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari and a further edited volume, Genre Trajectories: Identifying, Mapping, Projecting (co-edited with Dr Natasha Rulyova of the University of Birmingham).

In 2012-13 I was Project Partner (for UWL) on the AHRC-funded Genre Studies Network hosted by the University of Birmingham. I also taught on the inaugural Samuel Beckett Summer School at Trinity College, Dublin in 2011.

My current research projects focus on representations of space, location and spatial relations in the novel and in film. I am currently supervising PhDs on Decadence and Adaptation, Gilles Deleuze and Samuel Beckett and Cinema and Concepts and Practices of Space and Place.

I welcome PhD applications from any of the fields suggested by my publications and recent research.

I am currently Course Leader for the three Combined Honours courses, English and Creative Writing, English and Film and English and Media & Communications.

Qualifications

BA English Literature and Philosophy (University College Cork), MA English Literature (National University of Ireland), PhD English Literature (National University of Ireland)
Memberships

European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
The Samuel Beckett Society

I am a Professor of Film, Literature and Media, and my current research focuses on representations of space, location and spatial relations in the novel and in film. I am a member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and the Samuel Beckett Society.

See Professor Garin Dowd's publications list in the UWL Repository.

Research and publications

Publications
Dowd, G. and Rulyova, N. (eds) (2015) Genre Trajectories: Identifying, Mapping, Projecting, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137505477.
Dowd, G. (2007) Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari, Editions Rodopi. ISBN 789042022065.
Dowd, G., Stevenson, L. & Strong, J. (eds) (2006) Introduction by Garin Dowd: Genre Matters: Essays in Theory and Criticism, Intellect Books. ISBN 1841501077.
Dowd, G. & Daly, F. (2003) Leos Carax, French Film Directors Series, Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063140/59.
Book chapters
Dowd, G. (2015) Philosophy's Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry and the Poem from Plato to Badiou. In Dowd, G. and Rulyova, N. (eds) (2015) Genre Trajectories: Identifying, Mapping, Projecting, Palgrave Macmillan: 11-28. ISBN 9781137505477.
Dowd, G. (2015) The problem of the 'any-space-whatever' between Deleuze's cinema and Beckett's prose. In Wilmer. S. and Žukauskaite, A. (eds) Beckett and Deleuze, Steve Wilmer (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan: 152-68. ISBN: 9781137481139.
Dowd, G. (2015) Is 'Critique et Clinique' Schizoanalytic?: an Archaeology of Schizoanalysis in Deleuze and Guattari and the Critical Commentary. In Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. (eds) The Schizoanalysis of Literature, Bloomsbury: 119-36. ISBN 9781472529633.
Dowd, G. (2014) Deleuze and the Five Paradoxes of Cinematographic Modernity. In Gontarski, S.E., Mattison, L. & Ardoin, P. (eds) Understanding Deleuze/Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury: 90-109. ISBN 9781623563493.
Dowd, G. (2013) Beckett and France 1928-1939. In Uhlmann, A. (ed.) Beckett in Context, Cambridge University Press: 76-86. ISBN 9781107017030.
Dowd, G. (2012) Image and Representation. In Gontarski, S.E., Mattison, L. & Ardoin, P. (eds) (2012) Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism, Continuum. ISBN: 9781441172211.
Dowd, G. (2012) Beckettian pain, in the flesh: singularity, community and the work. In Tajiri, Y. et al (eds) (2012) Beckett and Pain, Rodopi: 67-91. ISBN 9789042035232.
Dowd, G. (2012) Stellar Separation or Abstract Machine? Badiou and Deleuze and Guattari on Beckett. In Carney, J., O’Sullivan, M., Madden, L. & White, K. (eds) (2012) Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary, Cambridge Scholars Press: 92-107. ISBN 1443835005.
Dowd, G. (2009) Serge Daney. In Colman, F. (ed.) Film, Theory and Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Acumen Press: 122-133. ISBN 9781844651856.
Dowd, G. (2009) The secret pressures of the work of art: apprenticeship and philosophy in Proust, Beckett, Deleuze and Ruiz. In Bryden, M. & Topping, M. (eds) Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust, Palgrave Macmillan: 89-103. ISBN 9780230201415.
Journal articles
Dowd, G. (2018) Regimes of language and light in J. S. Le Fanu's 'Green Tea'. Textual Practice. ISSN 0950-236X (online version; paper version forthcoming)
Dowd, G. (2017) L’Épistolier ou 'l’homme-à-la-bêche' : The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956, Vol. 2, Review Essay on The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol. 2, In: La Violence dans l'œuvre de Samuel Beckett entre langage et corps. Samuel Beckett .Revue des Lettres modernes 4. Minard, Paris, France, pp. 349-371. ISBN 9782812450235.
Dowd, G. (2012) The Proxemics of 'Neither'. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 24: 367-368. ISBN 9789042035690.
Dowd, G. (2010) 'Our day will come': Histoire de Marie et Julien. Australian Journal of French Studies XLVII. 2: 171-183. ISSN 00049468.
Dowd, G. (2010) Pedagogies of the Image Between Daney and Deleuze. New Review of Film and Television Studies 8(1): 41-56. ISSN: 17400309.
Dowd, G. (2009) Paris and its Doubles: Deleuze and Rivette. Deleuze Studies 3(2): 185-206. ISSN 17502241.
Dowd, G. (2008) Prolegomena to a Critique of Excavatory Reason: Reply to Matthew Feldman. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd 'hui 20: 375-388. ISBN 9789042025141.
Dowd, G. (2008) 'All out': the dismantling of the face in Murphy. Journal of Beckett Studies 16(1&2): 64-84. ISSN 0309527.
Dowd, G. (2008) Watt's Ways: Addenda, borders, courses. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd ‘hui 19: 75-85. ISBN 9789042023932.
Conferences

Selected conference and seminar papers
Dowd, G. (2018) Species of Spaces in the Cinema of Philippe Garrel, Philippe Garrel: Embodied Time, Université Paris 8, Université Paris Nanterre, 29-30 November.
Dowd, G. (2018) Daney and Deleuze Reconsidered, Serge Daney AHRC Network Symposium, Paris 8, September (invited speaker, date to be confirmed).
Dowd, G. (2018) Addressing Beckett’s Holes: Epistolary Equivocacy in Volume II of the Letters, Corresponding with Beckett, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1-2 June.
Dowd, G. (2016) Death drives: Metropolitan transposition/ translation/adaptation - Murphy in London, Castro in Buenos Aires, London Beckett Seminar, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 4 December.
Dowd, G. (2015) Cinematographic form and the architectural frame in recent Europeancinema, Space and Place in European Cinema : European Cinema Research Forum Annual Conference, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 7-8 July.
Dowd, G. (2015) Locating and Dislocating the Architectural Imagination in What is Philosophy?: the special case of literature, 8^th annual Deleuze Studies Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 29 June-1 July.
Dowd, G. (2014) Cinema and contemporary re-singularisation, 7^th annual Deleuze Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-16 July.
Dowd, G. (2013) The Two Versions of “Any-space-whatever” in Deleuze’s Reading of Beckett, 6^th annual Deleuze Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-10 July.
Dowd, G. (2013) Grey creep: the changing face of methodology in Beckett research, The London Beckett Seminar 2013, Birkbeck College, London, UK, 27 June.
Dowd, G. (2012) Let England Shake: Robinson in Ruins and The Nine Muses, After Terror Conference, University of Bordeaux III, France, 8-10 November.
Dowd, G. (2012) Beckett's proxemics: dwelling, exposure, earth, Beckett and the State of Ireland Conference, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 August.
Dowd, G. (2012) Genre Theory and the strange place of poetry, AHRC Genre Network, Birmingham University, UK, 6 October.
Dowd, G. (2012) Phantom Times: Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Annual Conference, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 21-23 June.
Dowd, G. (2011) Beckett's Singularities, Samuel Beckett Summer School Lectures, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 12 July.
Dowd, G. (2011) Beckett's Cinema Legacies, Debts and Legacies: Samuel Beckett Seminar Series, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK, 17 May.
Dowd, G. (2010) Interpenetrations, Beckett Between, École Normale Supérieure, France.
Dowd, G. (2009) Re: Ruiz: return, revenants, resonance, remembrance, Special panel on the films of Raul Ruiz, 2nd annual Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland.
Dowd, G. (2009) The scopic and spatial regimes of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion, International Association of Philosophy and Literature annual conference, Brunel University, UK.
Dowd, G. (2008) The Image between Daney and Deleuze, One or Several Deleuzes, Inaugural Deleuze Studies conference, Cardiff University, Wales.
Research degree supervision

Principal Supervisor
New Articulations of Time: Cinema and Digital Media Culture. (Alice Giuliani)
The Haunting Persistence of the Witch: Figurations of Witchcraft and Historiography. (Dominic O'Donoghue)
Secondary Supervisor
Examining Adaptation Studies In and Through the Decadent Aesthetics of J-K Huysmans’ A Rebours. (Marcus Nicholls) - awarded February 2018.