Lois More Overbeck will present a talk on the life of Samuel Beckett, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Lois is currently the Professor and Director of the Letters of Samuel Beckett Project in the English Department of Emory University. She edited The Beckett Circle of The Samuel Beckett Society (1984-1989), and has published widely on Beckett and modern drama. She was a consultant for the Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, project director of a collaborative, city-wide festival, Beckett/Atlanta (1987) and a coordinator of the Year of  Beckett - 2006, Atlanta, a festival of performances, lectures and workshops (by international directors and scholars Walter Asmus, Marek Kedzierski, Michael Haerdter working with local theatres and universities) celebrating Beckett's centennial year. She edited, with Paul Jackson, a collection of essays and interviews on the plays of Adrienne Kennedy, Intersecting Margins (1992).

This event is one of a four-part series, in partnership with Turlough McConnell Communications, exploring the lives and works of the four Irish born winners of the Nobel Prize for literature, to mark the installation of Rowan Gillespie’s work The Four Irish Nobel Laureates in Boston College Ireland, kindly donated by Brian Burns.  

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