About Me

I am a writer and teacher based in Cardiff, Wales, UK, and the author of Beckett’s Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity (2018). My essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the San Francisco Chronicle, The Spectator, The Quarterly Conversation, 3:AM Magazine, and Lincoln Center’s The Score.

I have been invited to speak at St John’s College at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. From 2012 to 2020, I served on the Board of the Samuel Beckett Society and co-edited its official newsletter, The Beckett Circle. Today, RhysTranter.com serves as an ongoing notebook for reflections on the intersections of faith, art, and culture.

For many years, my writing and research were grounded in a strictly secular approach to literature and philosophy. A profound turning point in my personal and physical life initiated a period of seeking that ultimately led me to the Catholic Church. The story of this intellectual and spiritual conversion is detailed on the Credo page.

(See CV)

About the Site

Established as a digital archive of commentary and analysis across literature, philosophy, and the arts, RhysTranter.com builds upon two decades of critical and creative writing. Over the years, the site’s work has been featured, cited, and referenced by prominent cultural figures and organizations, including The New York Times, Wired, The New York Review of Books, Grove Atlantic, Cambridge University Press, Margaret Atwood, and the David Lynch Foundation. It has also been featured as an Editor’s Pick on WordPress Discover for its interview work.

RhysTranter.com is the permanent home of A Piece of Monologue. Founded in 2007, A Piece of Monologue won 3:AM Magazine Blog of the Year in 2009 and was widely cited across literary and media landscapes, including by The New Yorker, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Paris Review, Stanford University, and The Criterion Collection.

In 2016, the site was selected to become part of the British Library’s permanent UK Web Archive.

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