Responses to Chercher
Levin Arnsperger, Associate Director of the Emory Writing Center and the English Language Learning Program, Emory University
"So great to hear about this new tool. The search engine works well, and I particularly love the additional pages on that website, including the timeline and the videos."
Matthijs Engleberts, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
"I appreciate the idea and the execution very much indeed. The result is fantastic, really, and even more wide-ranging than ‘just’ the letters (which is Herculean enough in itself!)."
Gerald Dawe. Poet, Professor Emeritus, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
"My word, what an archive; I could be gone for months inside this!"
Michael Elliott, President, Amherst College
"Congratulations, and thank you for all you’ve done to create this exceptional resource!"
Ron Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Emory University
"A new wonder of digital research for Beckett scholars."
Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emeritus of English, Stanford University
"Congratulations on this great index! I already tried it out and it works beautifully. I look forward to using it."
Daniela Caselli, Professor of Modern Literature, University of Manchester, UK
"You have done a great service to the Beckett community, and beyond (again)!"
Connor Carville, Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing
"This looks amazing."
Antonia Rodriguez Gago, Professor Emerita, Facultad de Filosofia y Lettreas, University of Madrid
"A great job! It will be a great help for interested researchers on Beckett's work to know where the letters can be found."
Matthew Feldman, Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Teeside University, UK
"An outstanding resource. The platform will be massively useful to Beckettians - and beyond! Wishing you every success with this important project, and proud to have road tested such a valuable resource."
Trish McTighe, Lecturer, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University, Belfast
"Congratulations on this wonderful resource! I look forward to exploring it in more depth and seeing how it might enhance my teaching in Autumn."
Elizabeth L. Garver, French Collections Research Associate, Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
"This is amazing and wonderful! It will certainly make my job a whole lot easier."
Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin
"The search engine for the Letters promises to be a very valuable tool."
Sam Slotes, Professor of English, Co-Director of M.Phil. in Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin
"It looks fantastic and very useful."
Brenda Bynum, Resident Artist Emeritus, Theatre, Emory
"Here is how much I love Chercher - the more I look through it the more I go down the rabbit hole of wanting to dig just a little deeper, then more, then more. The researcher and/or the proofreader can just imagine the pleasure and satisfaction of pursuing a line of inquiry to support a query or an idea with so many direct lines to specific sources and connections. The value of this trove to serious scholars and writers and artistic professionals engaged in pursuing understanding of Beckett's work is truly immeasurable."
Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
"What an incredible resource for the field."
Katherine Weiss, Associate Dean, California State University, Los Angeles
"I love this Chercher!"
Sharon Maxwell, Archivist, University of Reading Special Collections (UK)
"Chercher looks great and is really easy to use and works well. I really enjoyed the film clips and the timeline too. I will certainly get this added to our Beckett resources."
Linda Matthews, Director Emeritus, Woodruff Library, Emory
"You and your colleagues have created a terrific search tool. Do wish Sam Beckett could know about it! You will get selective and useful comments and suggestions from others who are engaged in this research, but I wanted to say thank you for all you've done to aid Beckett scholars. This is one case where "awesome" is the proper adjective."