Amanda Dennis

Professor Dennis has research interests in philosophies of embodiment, modernism, and contemporary literature, and her current research traces the influence of 20th-century French philosophy on the work of Samuel Beckett. Her book project, Bodying Space: Beckett and the Question of Agency, engages phenomenology to explore how the physical body – especially in relation to its environment – suggests alternative forms of subjective agency. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature and the Journal of Beckett Studies, and she has published elsewhere on philosophy and literary aesthetics. She has held fellowships and visiting lectureships in France, the UK, the US and Spain. She also studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded a Whited Fellowship in creative writing. She is fiction editor of the literary magazine Paris Lit Up, and writes about literature for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Guernica.