Galina Kiryushina, Ph.D.

galina.kiryushina@aauni.edu

Letenská 5, Prague 1

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Galina Kiryushina holds a Ph.D. in English Philology from Charles University Prague, where she also worked as Research Assistant at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.

Her most recent publications have examined cinematic and televisual legacies in Samuel Beckett’s writing, with a focus on his late prose. Her work has appeared in academic journals and essay collections, including in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, the Journal of Beckett Studies, Beckett and Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Samuel Beckett and Technology (Edinburgh UP, 2021), which she also co-edited with Einat Adar and Mark Nixon. Her current research focuses on Beckett’s collaborations, in particular with the German television broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR/SWR).

Specializations: Samuel Beckett, European modernism, early cinema and television, intermediality 

Recent Publications:

  • Kiryushina, Galina (forthcoming in 2026), ‘Afterword’, in Clas Zilliacus, Beckett and Broadcasting: A Study of the Works of Samuel Beckett for and in Radio and Television, 2nd Edition, London: Anthem Press.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (forthcoming in 2026), ‘Film and TV Plays’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett, ed. Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2025), ‘An Interview with Helfrid Foron’,Journal of Beckett Studies 34:2, pp. 201–222.
  • Kiryushina, Galina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, eds (2021), Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474463287. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-samuel-beckett-and-technology.html
  • Kiryushina, Galina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon (2021), ‘“Up to the Neck in Technical Muck”: The Enduring Success of Beckett’s Technological Failures’ (Introduction), Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1–10.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2021), ‘“a medium for fleas”: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s–1960s French Television Drama’, Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 125–141.
  • Kiryushina, Galina, and Mark Nixon (2021), ‘Samuel Beckett’s The North’, Journal of Beckett Studies 30:2, pp. 188–204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2021.0340.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2020), ‘“this little people of searchers”: The Lost Ones, “Voice of God,” and the Documentary Gaze’, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 32.1, pp. 25–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03201003.JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27142185