Beckett Beyond Zine Exhibition: Undergraduate Researchers Fostering Interdisciplinary Synergies through Creative Research Outputs

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02/19/2026

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On Wednesday 18 February 2026 The Library welcomed undergraduate learners from the “Beckett Beyond” module (designed by Céline Thobois-Gupta) – as members of the Trinity research community – to launch the exhibition of their research zines on Samuel Beckett’s drama and their independently selected area of inquiry in the Orientation Space of the Eavan Boland Library. The exhibition runs during Hilary Term: we hope that you will enjoy consulting the material artefacts and sometimes going beyond the page via QR codes.

The exhibition features 15 zines, which add to the existing series archived in the Library’s permanent collection, now counting over 40 undergraduate research outputs. This year, zinesters investigated topics, such as silence, landscape, repetition, neurodivergence, grief, clowns, embodiment, escapism, mechanicality, directing, gender, company, geography and social media. They familiarised themselves with research methodologies from a range of fields, often combining them together to adapt to the complexity of the questions they unearthed from Beckett’s creative ecosystem. To find out more about the teaching and learning that sustained the development of those projects, you can consult the “Beckett Beyond 2026”  Library Guide.

Their zines communicate the outcomes of their mini-research projects for expert and non-expert audiences, aiming to make the findings accessible beyond Theatre and Drama Studies, as they discovered that Beckett’s oeuvre is a fertile soil for interdisciplinary entanglements. The zinesters hope that the exhibition will be a site for new interactions and synergies: some zines invite responses via QR codes, and all researchers can be contacted by email for further academic discussions (their addresses can be found on the back of their publications). 

The Beckett Beyond Zine Exhibition is presented as a collaboration between the Library, the Department of Drama and the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies. We congratulate the cohort on their achievement, and we express our gratitude to all the visitors who will engage with the zines.

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