Einat Adar, Ph.D.

Adar earned her PhD in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures from Charles University, where she produced a thesis on Samuel Beckett鈥檚 life-long engagement with the philosophy of George Berkeley.

Adar’s work has been published in the essay collections Gallows Humour (2020) and Translating Samuel Beckett around the World (2021), as well as the journals Partial Answers and Estudios Irlandeses. She is also the co-editor, together with Galina Kiryushina and Mark Nixon, of Samuel Beckett and Technology (2021).

Adar holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature and American Studies from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include Samuel Beckett, Flann O鈥橞rien, Irish modernism, and philosophy.

Specializations

literature and philosophy, literary theory, literary modernism, Irish modernism

Publications 

  • Beckett and Technology. Eds. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
  • “Beckett in ‘A Distant Place’: Early Translations in Hebrew”, in Beckett and the Languages of the World, Eds. Pascale Sardin and Jos茅 Francisco Fern谩ndez, Springer, 2021. Co-written with Dr. Ronen Sonis.
  • 鈥淭he essential inherent interior essence: The Third Policeman and early modern ontologies鈥, in Gallows Humour, Eds. Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan, Cork University Press, 2020.
  •  鈥淔rom Irish Philosophy to Irish Theatre: The Blind (Wo)Man Made to See.鈥 Estudios Irlandeses 12. 2017: 1-11.
  • 鈥溾業 forgot half the words鈥: Samuel Beckett鈥檚 Molloy as Minor Literature.鈥 Partial Answers 14:1. 2016: 21-31.