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Susie Hennessy (nee Mower) is currently undertaking postgraduate research at Loughborough University, where she is combining the theories established in the writings of the “French existentialists”, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and company, with those of contemporary theorists, in order to launch a new phenomenological investigation into the drama, prose and poetry of Samuel Beckett. Exploring the concept of “being”, as opposed to the void, or “nothingness”, and examining the modes of being conscious that are made visible in Beckett's oeuvre, Susie's current work couples phenomenolical philosophy with philosophy of mind, and touches upon theories that contribute to the emerging field of consciousness studies. Susie is now enjoying her fifth year of lecturing in Drama at the University of Lincoln, and has published articles/book chapters from her PhD thesis, as well as on Peter Brook's The Mahabharata, and Etienne Decroux’s corporeal mime.