Georgina Nugent is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna. She is the author of The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Company/ Compagnie (Bloomsbury Academic/UPA, 2021) and Beckett and Stein (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies that focuses on ‘Beckett’s Women Contemporaries’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her research focuses on modernism, with a particular interest in Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. She has published essays in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujhourd’hui, Journal of Beckett Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, and The Southern Review, among others. Her current book project is a comparative study of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Like the eponymous Joyce scholar of the novel The Death of a Joyce Scholar, Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin and lives in the Liberties in Dublin. He is the author of Annotations to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (Oxford, 2022), Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Palgrave, 2013), and is the co-editor, with Luca Crispi, of How Joyce Wrote ‘Finnegans Wake’ (Wisconsin, 2007). In addition to Joyce and Beckett, he has written on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Queneau, Antonin Artaud, Dante, Mallarmé, and Elvis.