Alan Warren Friedman


Alan Warren Friedman is Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a specialist in the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

Selected publications

Fictional Death and The Modernist Enterprise. Cambridge University Press, 1995.James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 471–484.Beckett in Black and Red: Samuel Beckett's Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro. University of Kentucky Press, Louisville, 2000.Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2007.
  • "Death and Beyond in J.B. Priestley's Johnson over Jordan", New Theatre Quarterly, 22.1 : 76–90.
  • "Biographical Joyce", James Joyce Quarterly, 45.3-4 Spring/Summer 2008.
  • "De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference". European Joyce Studies 18. Editions Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2009.
  • "Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond", Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 51.1 March 2009..
  • "Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton: Godeau, Film, and New York", Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 51.1, pp. 41–46.