Rate My Professor Chris Ackerley

Ackerley's field is Modernism, specializing in annotation with expertise in Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett, alongside interests in Nabokov, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, J.G. Farrell, Borges, and Roa Bastos. Major publications include The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought (2004, with S.E. Gontarski), Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt (2010), Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy (2010), and the edited Faber edition of Beckett's Watt (2009). He developed the Malcolm Lowry Project's hypertextual companion to Under the Volcano and pursued projects such as annotating Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea, the 1940 Volcano, and Swinging the Maelstrom for the Editing Modernism in Canada initiative; a study of Samuel Beckett and science; and a Marsden-funded exploration of modernist aesthetics rooted in medieval traditions. Ackerley advises editorial boards including Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Historicising Modernism, Modernism and Christianity, Otago French Notes, and the Ionesco-Beckett Research Centre. His annotations and companions have profoundly impacted scholarship on modernist literature by elucidating obscure references and intertextual complexities.