I teach and publish across the genres and practices of Modernism: prose, poetry, drama, and film, as well as textual and editorial theory. A dominant aspect of my research seeks to develop digital scholarly editions of complex Modernist texts and their manuscripts, including the Watt module of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.

Research interests

Samuel Beckett
Ezra Pound
Twentieth-century Poetry and Prose
Modernism and Medievalism
Poetry and Aesthetics East and West
Modernism and Editorial Theory
Textual Criticism
History of the Book
Modern Manuscript Studies
Theories of Modern Drama
Literature and Music
Literature and the Visual Arts
Philosophy and Literature
Hermeneutics
Transnational and Transcultural Poetics

Teaching and supervision

Modern Irish Literature
Poetry and Aesthetics East and West
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Samuel Beckett
American Poetry
Textual Criticism and Hermeneutics

Current projects

Watt, Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, a complete digital transcription of the 980-page manuscript and partial typescript of Beckett’s 1953 novel Watt, with scholarly apparatus and various search and interpretive functions
Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination (Cambridge University Press, in press), a monograph study exploring how Beckett deploys geological and archaeological references and images across his career, with an emphasis on his late prose texts.
Samuel Beckett's Watt, a monograph providing historical, textual and hermeneutic context for the SBDMP Watt digital edition

Associations

Editorial Board, Modernist Networks, Applied Research Consortium, dir. Laura Mandell (2014- )
Editorial Board, Modernist Archives, London: Bloomsbury (2013- )
Advisory Board, Scholarly and Performance Editions of the Music of Ezra Pound, Margaret Fisher and Robert Hughes, Second Evening Art Publishing (2009-)
International Committee, Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project (2007-)

PhD and master's project opportunities

Modernism

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Puncturing the Myths: The History and Historiography of Insular Tattooing from Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period	Erica STEINER
Imagining China and the Making of English Modernity Chinese Taste in English Literature from 1660 to 1750	Danyan XUE
Transnational Poetics and Modernist Archives: Ezra Pound's Confucian Odes	Yuxin ZHANG
Global Modernism Reconsidered: W. Somerset Maugham's Journey to East	Ray ZHOU

Selected publications

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination

(Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's The Blue Spill - A Manuscript Critical Edition

(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

The New Ezra Pound Studies

(Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Ezra Pound's Eriugena

(Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

Samuel Beckett's Endgame

(Rodopi, 2007)

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Books

Byron, M. (2020). Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M., Barnes, S. (2019). Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's 'The Blue Spill' - A manuscript critical edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Ezra Pound's Eriugena. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]

Edited Books

Byron, M. (2019). The New Ezra Pound Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2007). Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Rodopi.

Book Chapters

Byron, M. (2024). 'Let Me Be Free of Printers': Ezra Pound's Generative Archive. In Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen and Erik Tonning (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, (pp. 81-96). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2024). 'The Pantheon at Rome or Certain Beehive Tombs': Beckett's Posthumous Architecture. In Davide Crosara and Mario Martino (Eds.), Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Italian Negotiations, (pp. 11-29). London and New York: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). A Critical Poetics of Warfare. In Helen Groth and Julian Murphet (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies, (pp. 316-335). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). Becoming Thylacine: Embodiment, Ecology, and Materialism in Julia Leigh's 'The Hunter'. In Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay and Nishaant Choksi (Eds.), Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care, (pp. 181-194). Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2022). Whole Fragments: Beckett and Modernist Poetics. In James Brophy and William Davies (Eds.), Samuel Beckett's Poetry, (pp. 39-53). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Parker, R., Byron, M. (2021). Canto 75. In Richard Parker (Eds.), Readings in the Cantos: Volume 2, (pp. 213-224). SC, United States: Liverpool University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Afterword: 'Read Him'. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 271-276). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Early Medieval Philosophy and Textuality. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 26-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Editor's Introduction. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 1-6). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Gerald Murnane's Plain Style. In Anthony Uhlmann (Eds.), Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One, (pp. 85-108). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). A Cross in the margin, Inscription and Erasure in Derrida and Pound. In Jean-Michel Rabate (Eds.), Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism, (pp. 157-177). New York: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). Ezra Pound and East Asian Art. In Roxana Preda (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts, (pp. 61-77). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Byron, M. (2019). The Poetic Dimension of Economics: Byzantium. In Ralf Lufter, Roxana Preda (Eds.), A Companion to Ezra Pound's Economics, (pp. 183-205). Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz.
Byron, M. (2018). Canto 36. In Richard Parker (Eds.), Readings in the Cantos, (pp. 285-296). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound. In Simone Celine Marshall, Carole M Cusack (Eds.), The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, (pp. 78-98). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). Bibliographic Technography: Ezra Pound's Cantos as Philological Machine. In Sean Pryor and David Trotter (Eds.), Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, (pp. 153-165). London: Open Humanities Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). Ezra Pound's Oriental Hinterlands. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 33-53). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Byron, M. (2015). Ezra Pound's Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos. In Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, David Addyman (Eds.), Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse, (pp. 109-122). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Exercises in Battology: Digitizing Samuel Beckett's Watt. In Paul Longley Arthur, Katherine Bode (Eds.), Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theory, (pp. 15-27). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Modernist Wheelmen. In Julian Murphet, Ronan McDonald, Sascha Morrell (Eds.), Flann O'Brien and Modernism, (pp. 213-232). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2013). "What have I said?": Vladimir's Tragic Recognition. In Ranjan Ghosh (Eds.), In Dialogue with Godot: waiting and Other Thoughts, (pp. 23-34). Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books.
Byron, M. (2013). English Literature. In Anthony Uhlmann (Eds.), Samuel Beckett in Context, (pp. 218-228). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Byron, M. (2013). Scharfsinnige Sturzfluten bei Beckett und Bernhard. In Jan Wilm, Mark Nixon (Eds.), Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur, (pp. 139-155). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2012). The scholarly editing of literary texts. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 252-258). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
Byron, M. (2010). Textual criticism. In Ira B. Nadel (Eds.), Ezra Pound in Context, (pp. 136-147). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2007). Introduction: Endgame- Very Nearly, But not quite. In Mark S. Byron (Eds.), Samuel Beckett's Endgame, (pp. xi-xiii). Rodopi.
Byron, M. (2006). Musical Scores and Literary Form in Modernism. In Delia da Sousa Correa , Robert Samuels (Eds.), Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature, (pp. 87-98). Oxford: Legenda.
Byron, M. (2004). Beckett's "Tenth Rate Xenium": The Conundra Of Writing And Editing Watt. In Michael J. Meyer (Eds.), Literature and the Writer, (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
Byron, M. (2003). 'This thing that has a code + not a core': The Texts of Pound's Pisan Cantos. In HÃ©lÃ¨ne Aji (Eds.), Ezra Pound and referentiality, (pp. 225-238). Paris: Universitaires de Paris Sorbonne.
Byron, M. (2002). A Defining Moment in Ezra Pound's Cantos: Musical Scores and Literary Texts. In Michael J. Meyer (Eds.), Literature and music, (pp. 157-182). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

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Journals

Byron, M. (2021). Displaced Homelands in G. Australian Literary Studies, 36(2), 1-15. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2021). History, Text, Allegoresis. Affirmations: Of the Modern, 7(1), 30-45. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2021). Worsening Shades: The Late Styles of 'Nohow On'. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 33(1), 45-57. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). Chinese poetical histories in Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder. Critical Quarterly, 61(1), 99-114. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2018). Deep Rustication in Canto CI. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, 10, 163-184.
Byron, M. (2018). Samson and Delilah. English Studies in Africa, 61(1), 40-46. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). Iain Bailey's, 'Beckett and the Bible'. Journal of Beckett Studies, 26(1), 144-149. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). Mind, Brain, and Text: Immanent Thinking in Worstward Ho. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 29(1), 126-137. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). Wordly Corrasions: Philology and Narrative in Worstward Ho. Journal of Beckett Studies, 26(1), 53-68. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). Between Apocalypse and Extinction: Eschatology in Ezra Pound's Poetry. Studia Neophilologica, 88(Suppl. 1), 19-32. [More Information]
Byron, M., Rosignoli, S. (2016). Introduction: The centuries that fall from the pod of eternity: Samuel Beckett and the middle ages. Journal of Beckett Studies, 25(1), 12-18. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). The early middle ages of Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies, 25(1), 19-38. [More Information]
Byron, M., Ackerley, C. (2015). 'Watt' Is Not a Well-Wrought Pot. Journal of Beckett Studies, 24(1), 32-48. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2015). Archive, Text, Screen: Remediations of Modernist Manuscripts. Ecdotica: Rivista di Studi Testuali, 11, 56-71.
Byron, M. (2014). Bathtub Philology: Ezra Pound's Annotative Realism. Archives and Manuscripts, 42(3), 258-269. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2013). Ezra Pound's 'Seven Lakes' Canto: Poetry and Painting, From East to West. The Rikkyo Review: Arts & Letters, 73, 121-142.
Byron, M. (2013). To End, Yet Again: Samuel Beckett's Interrupted Journeys. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 49(4), 406-422. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2012). "Change all the Names": Revision and Narrative Structure in Samuel Beckett's Watt. AUMLA, April - Special Issue(2012), 57-63.
Byron, M. (2012). In a Station of the Cantos: Ezra Pound's 'Seven Lakes' Canto and the Sh-Sho Hakkei Tekagami. Literature and Aesthetics, 22(2), 138-152.
Byron, M. (2012). The House of Usher as Phantasmagoria. Sydney Studies in English, 38, 81-109.
Byron, M. (2010). Digital scholarly editions of modernist texts: navigating the text in Samuel Beckett's Watt manuscripts. Sydney Studies in English, 36(2010), 150-169.
Lassman, E., Byron, M. (2010). Modernist quinella: Joyce, Beckett and Dublin's Leopardstown. Journal of Beckett Studies, 19(1), 78-94.
Byron, M. (2010). Report on the excursion to Siena, 4-5 July 2009. Ezra Pound Review, 12, 77-80.
Byron, M. (2007). Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Compact History of Twentieth-Century Authorship, Publishing and Editing. Literature Compass, 4(4), 1158-1168. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2005). Crossing Borders of the Self in the Fiction of David Malouf. Sydney Studies in English, 31, 76-93.
Byron, M. (2004). 'Stein Did That,' And Did That Until It Was Done. How2, 2(2).
Byron, M. (2004). The Ecstasy of Watt. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 14, 495-506. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2002). The Question of Aesthetics in George Eliot's Middlemarch: 'A Study in Provincial Life'. Literature and Aesthetics, 12, 83-91.
Byron, M. (2000). Root or Cord? The Text as Vineyard or the Text as Machine in Heidegger and Beckett. Henry Street: a graduate review of literary studies, 9(2), 5-28.
Byron, M. (1999). Logic's Doubt: 'Tamburlaine' and 'The Spanish Tragedy'. Comitatus: a journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies, 30(1), 81-94. [More Information]

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Magazine / Newspaper Articles

Byron, M. (2023). Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times. The Conversation. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). Virginia Woolf's copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library. What do her newly digitised notes reveal? The Conversation. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - so form an opinion. The Conversation. [More Information]

Reference Works

Byron, M. (2021). Loy, Mina (1882-1996). In Linda De Roche (Eds.), Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, vol. 3. (pp. 739-741). Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Byron, M. (2005). Arabic History. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. (pp. 15). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). History: European Enlightenment. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 108-109). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Ancient European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 218-220). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Eighteenth-Century to the Present European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 222-223). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Medieval and Renaissance European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 220-222). Westport: Greenwood.

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Karalis, V., Byron, M. (2024), Sydney celebrates life and work of philhellene Lord Byron. [More Information]

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2024

Byron, M. (2024). 'Let Me Be Free of Printers': Ezra Pound's Generative Archive. In Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen and Erik Tonning (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, (pp. 81-96). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2024). 'The Pantheon at Rome or Certain Beehive Tombs': Beckett's Posthumous Architecture. In Davide Crosara and Mario Martino (Eds.), Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Italian Negotiations, (pp. 11-29). London and New York: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Karalis, V., Byron, M. (2024), Sydney celebrates life and work of philhellene Lord Byron. [More Information]

2023

Byron, M. (2023). A Critical Poetics of Warfare. In Helen Groth and Julian Murphet (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies, (pp. 316-335). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). Becoming Thylacine: Embodiment, Ecology, and Materialism in Julia Leigh's 'The Hunter'. In Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay and Nishaant Choksi (Eds.), Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care, (pp. 181-194). Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times. The Conversation. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2023). Virginia Woolf's copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library. What do her newly digitised notes reveal? The Conversation. [More Information]

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2022

Byron, M. (2022). Whole Fragments: Beckett and Modernist Poetics. In James Brophy and William Davies (Eds.), Samuel Beckett's Poetry, (pp. 39-53). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2021

Parker, R., Byron, M. (2021). Canto 75. In Richard Parker (Eds.), Readings in the Cantos: Volume 2, (pp. 213-224). SC, United States: Liverpool University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2021). Displaced Homelands in G. Australian Literary Studies, 36(2), 1-15. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2021). History, Text, Allegoresis. Affirmations: Of the Modern, 7(1), 30-45. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2021). Loy, Mina (1882-1996). In Linda De Roche (Eds.), Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, vol. 3. (pp. 739-741). Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Byron, M. (2021). Worsening Shades: The Late Styles of 'Nohow On'. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 33(1), 45-57. [More Information]

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2020

Byron, M. (2020). Afterword: 'Read Him'. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 271-276). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Early Medieval Philosophy and Textuality. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 26-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Editor's Introduction. In Mark Byron (Eds.), The New Ezra Pound Studies, (pp. 1-6). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Gerald Murnane's Plain Style. In Anthony Uhlmann (Eds.), Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One, (pp. 85-108). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2020). Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

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2019

Byron, M. (2019). A Cross in the margin, Inscription and Erasure in Derrida and Pound. In Jean-Michel Rabate (Eds.), Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism, (pp. 157-177). New York: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). Chinese poetical histories in Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder. Critical Quarterly, 61(1), 99-114. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). Ezra Pound and East Asian Art. In Roxana Preda (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts, (pp. 61-77). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Byron, M., Barnes, S. (2019). Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's 'The Blue Spill' - A manuscript critical edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). The New Ezra Pound Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2019). The Poetic Dimension of Economics: Byzantium. In Ralf Lufter, Roxana Preda (Eds.), A Companion to Ezra Pound's Economics, (pp. 183-205). Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz.

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2018

Byron, M. (2018). Canto 36. In Richard Parker (Eds.), Readings in the Cantos, (pp. 285-296). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2018). Deep Rustication in Canto CI. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, 10, 163-184.
Byron, M. (2018). Samson and Delilah. English Studies in Africa, 61(1), 40-46. [More Information]

2017

Byron, M. (2017). Iain Bailey's, 'Beckett and the Bible'. Journal of Beckett Studies, 26(1), 144-149. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). Mind, Brain, and Text: Immanent Thinking in Worstward Ho. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 29(1), 126-137. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound. In Simone Celine Marshall, Carole M Cusack (Eds.), The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, (pp. 78-98). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2017). Wordly Corrasions: Philology and Narrative in Worstward Ho. Journal of Beckett Studies, 26(1), 53-68. [More Information]

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2016

Byron, M. (2016). Between Apocalypse and Extinction: Eschatology in Ezra Pound's Poetry. Studia Neophilologica, 88(Suppl. 1), 19-32. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). Bibliographic Technography: Ezra Pound's Cantos as Philological Machine. In Sean Pryor and David Trotter (Eds.), Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, (pp. 153-165). London: Open Humanities Press. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). Ezra Pound's Oriental Hinterlands. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 33-53). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Byron, M., Rosignoli, S. (2016). Introduction: The centuries that fall from the pod of eternity: Samuel Beckett and the middle ages. Journal of Beckett Studies, 25(1), 12-18. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2016). The early middle ages of Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies, 25(1), 19-38. [More Information]

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2015

Byron, M., Ackerley, C. (2015). 'Watt' Is Not a Well-Wrought Pot. Journal of Beckett Studies, 24(1), 32-48. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2015). Archive, Text, Screen: Remediations of Modernist Manuscripts. Ecdotica: Rivista di Studi Testuali, 11, 56-71.
Byron, M. (2015). Ezra Pound's Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos. In Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, David Addyman (Eds.), Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse, (pp. 109-122). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]

2014

Byron, M. (2014). A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - so form an opinion. The Conversation. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Bathtub Philology: Ezra Pound's Annotative Realism. Archives and Manuscripts, 42(3), 258-269. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Exercises in Battology: Digitizing Samuel Beckett's Watt. In Paul Longley Arthur, Katherine Bode (Eds.), Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theory, (pp. 15-27). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Ezra Pound's Eriugena. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2014). Modernist Wheelmen. In Julian Murphet, Ronan McDonald, Sascha Morrell (Eds.), Flann O'Brien and Modernism, (pp. 213-232). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]

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2013

Byron, M. (2013). "What have I said?": Vladimir's Tragic Recognition. In Ranjan Ghosh (Eds.), In Dialogue with Godot: waiting and Other Thoughts, (pp. 23-34). Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books.
Byron, M. (2013). English Literature. In Anthony Uhlmann (Eds.), Samuel Beckett in Context, (pp. 218-228). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Byron, M. (2013). Ezra Pound's 'Seven Lakes' Canto: Poetry and Painting, From East to West. The Rikkyo Review: Arts & Letters, 73, 121-142.
Byron, M. (2013). Scharfsinnige Sturzfluten bei Beckett und Bernhard. In Jan Wilm, Mark Nixon (Eds.), Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur, (pp. 139-155). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2013). To End, Yet Again: Samuel Beckett's Interrupted Journeys. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 49(4), 406-422. [More Information]

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2012

Byron, M. (2012). "Change all the Names": Revision and Narrative Structure in Samuel Beckett's Watt. AUMLA, April - Special Issue(2012), 57-63.
Byron, M. (2012). In a Station of the Cantos: Ezra Pound's 'Seven Lakes' Canto and the Sh-Sho Hakkei Tekagami. Literature and Aesthetics, 22(2), 138-152.
Byron, M. (2012). The House of Usher as Phantasmagoria. Sydney Studies in English, 38, 81-109.
Byron, M. (2012). The scholarly editing of literary texts. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 252-258). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.

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2010

Byron, M. (2010). Digital scholarly editions of modernist texts: navigating the text in Samuel Beckett's Watt manuscripts. Sydney Studies in English, 36(2010), 150-169.
Lassman, E., Byron, M. (2010). Modernist quinella: Joyce, Beckett and Dublin's Leopardstown. Journal of Beckett Studies, 19(1), 78-94.
Byron, M. (2010). Report on the excursion to Siena, 4-5 July 2009. Ezra Pound Review, 12, 77-80.
Byron, M. (2010). Textual criticism. In Ira B. Nadel (Eds.), Ezra Pound in Context, (pp. 136-147). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

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2007

Byron, M. (2007). Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Compact History of Twentieth-Century Authorship, Publishing and Editing. Literature Compass, 4(4), 1158-1168. [More Information]
Byron, M. (2007). Introduction: Endgame- Very Nearly, But not quite. In Mark S. Byron (Eds.), Samuel Beckett's Endgame, (pp. xi-xiii). Rodopi.
Byron, M. (2007). Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Rodopi.

2006

Byron, M. (2006). Musical Scores and Literary Form in Modernism. In Delia da Sousa Correa , Robert Samuels (Eds.), Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature, (pp. 87-98). Oxford: Legenda.

2005

Byron, M. (2005). Arabic History. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. (pp. 15). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Crossing Borders of the Self in the Fiction of David Malouf. Sydney Studies in English, 31, 76-93.
Byron, M. (2005). History: European Enlightenment. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 108-109). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Ancient European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 218-220). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Eighteenth-Century to the Present European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 222-223). Westport: Greenwood.
Byron, M. (2005). Philosophy: Medieval and Renaissance European. In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams (Eds.), An Ezra Pound Encyclopaedia. (pp. 220-222). Westport: Greenwood.

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2004

Byron, M. (2004). 'Stein Did That,' And Did That Until It Was Done. How2, 2(2).
Byron, M. (2004). Beckett's "Tenth Rate Xenium": The Conundra Of Writing And Editing Watt. In Michael J. Meyer (Eds.), Literature and the Writer, (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
Byron, M. (2004). The Ecstasy of Watt. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 14, 495-506. [More Information]

2003

Byron, M. (2003). 'This thing that has a code + not a core': The Texts of Pound's Pisan Cantos. In HÃ©lÃ¨ne Aji (Eds.), Ezra Pound and referentiality, (pp. 225-238). Paris: Universitaires de Paris Sorbonne.

2002

Byron, M. (2002). A Defining Moment in Ezra Pound's Cantos: Musical Scores and Literary Texts. In Michael J. Meyer (Eds.), Literature and music, (pp. 157-182). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Byron, M. (2002). The Question of Aesthetics in George Eliot's Middlemarch: 'A Study in Provincial Life'. Literature and Aesthetics, 12, 83-91.

2000

Byron, M. (2000). Root or Cord? The Text as Vineyard or the Text as Machine in Heidegger and Beckett. Henry Street: a graduate review of literary studies, 9(2), 5-28.

1999

Byron, M. (1999). Logic's Doubt: 'Tamburlaine' and 'The Spanish Tragedy'. Comitatus: a journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies, 30(1), 81-94. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2016

Modernism and the Early Middle Ages, Byron M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)
Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group, Borghesi F, Whiteman S, Byron M, Allon M, Milam J, White S, Barwick L, Mccrabb I, Hammond J, Sun C, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

2014

Ezra Pound's Unknown English Radio Broadcasts, Byron M, Tonning E, Feldman M, Addyman D, Neary N, Henderson A, University of Bergen/International Collaborative Research Grant Scheme

2013

ModNets (Modernist Networks), Advanced Research Consortium, Caughie P, Chinitz D, Jones S, Thiruvathukal G, Byron M, Clement T, Hennessey M, Irvine D, Drouin J, Mandell L, Van Hulle D, Wulfman C, Morris N, Jensen K, Hanlon A, Stalberg E, National Endowment for the Humanities/Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

2011

AustESE (Australian Electronic Scholarly Editions), Hunter J, Eggert P, Dolan T, Shillingsburg P, Robinson P, Van Hulle D, Byron M, Brimblecombe W, Gerber A, Schmidt D, Osborne R, Ward N, Ayers D, Middell G, NeCTAR/eResearch Tools Program

2010

Editing Complex Modernist Texts: A Methodological Study, Byron M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2009

Developing Digital Literary Editions at the Centre for Textual Genetics, University of Antwerp, and the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Byron M, Australian Academy of the Humanities/International Science Linkages: Humanities and Creative Arts Program

2008

The Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project: Watt, Byron M, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship

2005

Textual Ontogeny and the understanding of Modernist Texts: A case study of Samuel Becketts Novel Watt, Byron M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
Towards a Digital Edition of Samuel Beckett's Watt, Byron M, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship

2004

The Collation of Primary Sources at Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano: Towards an Electronic Variorum Edition of Ezra Poundâ€™s Cantos, Byron M, Australian Academy of the Humanities/Humanities Travelling Fellowships
The Ezra Pound Archive: Guido Cavalcanti and John Scottus Eriugena, Byron M, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven/Donald C. Gallup Fellowship

In the media

26/07/2023 - interviewed on RNZ:
Personal copy of Virginia Woolf's debut novel resurfaces
25/07/2023 - The Guardian republished The Conversation article:
Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her debut novel was found in Sydney and is now online. Here’s what it reveals
23/07/2023 - interviewed on BBC News:
Virginia Woolf: Personal copy of debut novel resurfaces
23/07/2023 - interviewed on 2GB about the rediscovery of Virginia Woolf's personal copy of her debut novel, 'The Voyage Out'.
21/07/2023 - interviewed on ABC News:
Virginia Woolf’s copy of debut novel The Voyage Out featuring handwritten notes rediscovered and digitised by University of Sydney

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