Special Teaching Staff in English Literature

Qualifications

Ph.D. English Literature (Bristol University, 1998)

M.A. (Commendation) in Shakespeare (Bristol University, 1995)

B.A. (Hons) English (Bristol University, 1993)

Specialization

English Literature, especially the works of Samuel Beckett; Modernism; Post-modernism; Literary Theory; Contemporary British and Irish fiction; Creative Writing.

Employment Track

Special Teaching Staff (UCLan Cyprus, 2025 – present)

Professor in Literature (University of Nicosia, 2012-24)

Associate Professor & Head of Department (University of Nicosia, 2006-12)

Assistant Professor (Intercollege, 2001-2006)

Senior Lecturer (Intercollege, 1999-2001)

Part-Time Lecturer (Intercollege, 1998-99)

Teaching Assistant (University of Bristol, 1995-7)

Memberships (Academic/Professional)

• Samuel Beckett Society
• International Association for the Study of Irish Literature
• European Federation of Centres of Irish Studies

Research Interests

The works of Samuel Beckett and related authors. Intertextual relations and the use of literary allusions. Representations of gender, sex and power. Aesthetics and its relations to the social and political. Creative writing (I am also a published novelist).

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership – University of Nicosia

• EN1222 ‘The use of Language in Literature’
• EN1215 ‘Reading texts: Literary Theory’

Selective Publications 

Academic Books

• Paul Stewart and David Pattie (eds.) Pop Beckett: Beckett and Popular Culture (Ibidem-verlag, 2019).
• Paul Stewart, Sex and Aesthetics in the Works of Samuel Beckett (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• Paul Stewart,Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett’s Disjunctions(New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2006).

Articles and Chapters

• “‘to hesitate to die to death’: Reading Augustine and the After-life in Echo’s Bones” The Journal of Beckett Studies (2023) 162-178.
• The figure of Beckett in four contemporary novels” in Beckett’s Afterlives, eds. Bignell, McMullan and Verhulst (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023): 249-262.
• “In Pursuit of Style: Coetzee Reading Beckett in the Archive” in J.M. Coetzee and the Archive, eds. Marc Farrant, Kai Easton, Hermann Wittenberg (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 149-160.
• “Art and the Female in Youth” in Reading Coetzee’s Women, eds. Sue Kossew and Melinda Harvey (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 71-86.
• “The Politics of Form in Samuel Beckett’s Late Prose and Theatre”, EJES European Journal of English Studies, 20.3 (2016): 263-274.
• “Queer Relations in Watt and the Post-War Prose” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 27 (2015): 105-117.
• “Vizenor and Beckett: Postmodern Identifications” Transmotion Vol.1 No.1 (2015): 48-62.

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

• “Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy.  Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe: Defining the Genre. Leibniz Centre for Literature, Berlin. June 2023.
• “‘to hesitate to die to death’: Reading Augustine and the After-life in Echo’s Bones” Spectral Landscapes: Absence, Trauma and Nationhood. University of Reading, UK. October, 2022.
•  “In Pursuit of Style: Coetzee Reading Beckett in the Archive”. Coetzee and the Archive. University of London. October 2017.

• “JM Coetzee: Autobiography, Authority and Authenticity” Excavating Lives: 12th International Association of Biography/Autobiography, The University of Cyprus, May 2016.
• “Art and the Female in Youth”. Coetzee’s Women. Monash University,  Prato, Italy. September 2016.
• “Molloy, Violence and the Politics of Inclusion” Beckett and Politics, The University of Reading, U.K. November 2016.

• “Catastrophe and the Ideology of Modernism”. Beckett and Modernism. 2nd Annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference. Universtiy of Antwertp. April 2015.
• “Adapting Lessness: Lessons from Radio and Stage” Staging Beckett Conference. The University of Reading. April 2015.
• Plenary lecturer, The Samuel Beckett Summer School, Trinity College, Dublin, 2015. Title: “‘as innocent as a sperm unspent’: Sex and Power in Beckett’s Works”
• “The Prose: Fitting”, Samuel Beckett and the BBC Symposium, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, UK. September 2013

 Selective Research Funding/ Grant Capture

• The Cartography of the Political Novel In Europe. Horizon Project. 2022-24. Researcher.

Other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

• Novelist.
  • The Book of Paul (Nicosia: Armida Books, 2022).
  • Of People and Things (Nicosia: Armida Books, 2019).
  • Paul Stewart, Now Then (Nicosia: Armida Books, 2014).

• Series Editor of “Samuel Beckett In Company” for the academic publisher Ibidem-Verlag

• Reader/Reviewer for the following journals:
  • The Journal of Beckett Studies
  • Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui
  • 21^st Century Interpretations of Samuel Beckett, Palgrave/Macmillan series
  • Modernism/modernity
  • Australian Literary Studies
  • Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies