Pim Verhulst

I study radio drama and intermediality in postwar literature from the British Isles, with a specialism on Samuel Beckett. My research is interdisciplinary, combining various fields such as literary and media studies, transmedial and audionarratology, genetic criticism, archival research and adaptation. I hold a PhD in English literature from the University of Antwerp (2014), where I was supervised by Prof. Dirk Van Hulle. In recent years, I have also worked at the University of Oxford and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. At Reading, I will be carrying out a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, funded through the UKRI and supervised by Prof. Jonathan Bignell. The project, titled ETHER (‘Entangled Theatre History and the Ephemerality of Radio: Tracing the BBC’s Intermedial Impact on British Postwar Drama’), examines how Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill were influenced by radio in their writing for the stage:

• ETHER (2025–2027)