Galina Kiryushina, Ph.D.

Galina Kiryushina holds a Ph.D. in English Philology from Charles University 糖心Vlog, 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鈥檚 writing, with a focus on his late prose. Her work has appeared in academic journals and essay collections, including in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd鈥檋ui, 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鈥檚 collaborations, in particular with the German television broadcaster S眉ddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR/SWR).

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

Recent Publications:

  • Kiryushina, Galina (forthcoming in 2026), 鈥楢fterword鈥, 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), 鈥楩ilm and TV Plays鈥, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett, ed. Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2025), 鈥楢n Interview with Helfrid Foron鈥,Journal of Beckett Studies 34:2, pp. 201鈥222.
  • Kiryushina, Galina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, eds (2021), Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474463287.
  • Kiryushina, Galina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon (2021), 鈥樷淯p to the Neck in Technical Muck鈥: The Enduring Success of Beckett鈥檚 Technological Failures鈥 (Introduction), Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1鈥10.
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2021), 鈥樷渁 medium for fleas鈥: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s鈥1960s French Television Drama鈥, Samuel Beckett and Technology, ed. Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 125鈥141.
  • Kiryushina, Galina, and Mark Nixon (2021), 鈥楽amuel Beckett鈥檚 The North鈥, Journal of Beckett Studies 30:2, pp. 188鈥204. DOI: .
  • Kiryushina, Galina (2020), 鈥樷渢his little people of searchers鈥: The Lost Ones, 鈥淰oice of God,鈥 and the Documentary Gaze鈥, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd鈥檋ui, 32.1, pp. 25鈥40. DOI: .JSTOR: