Post:	Professor of English
Other posts:	Director of Student Support (English School)
Location:	Arts B B263
Email:	P.Boxall@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8719
UK:	(01273) 678719
International:	+44 1273 678719

Biography

I have been teaching English at Sussex since 1999, having completed my doctorate at Sussex in 1997. As well as teaching for Sussex, I have taught for the universities of New York and Gothenburg.

My undergraduate teaching is focused largely on twentieth and twenty-first century literature. I teach a course on literature from 1919 to the present, a course on Samuel Beckett, and I convene a course entitled 'Culture and Revolution', which addresses the relationship between literature and revolutionary movements from the English civil war to the cultural revolution of 1968.

I also teach masters courses on contemporary writing, and on utopian fiction and theory. I am supervising a number of graduate students on topics ranging from Samuel Beckett's relationship with Wittgenstein, to Don DeLillo's engagement with modernism.

Role

Senior Lecturer in English

Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Humanities

Research

Modern and contemporary writing; aesthetics and cultural politics, particularly in the work of Samuel Beckett; contemporary literature, especially the work of Don DeLillo; the utopian function in twentieth century writing.

Publications

Select Publications:

Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (London: Continuum, 2008) (forthcoming)

Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (London: Routledge, 2006)

1001 Novels you must Read before you Die (London: Quintet, 2006)

Waiting for Godot and Endgame: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)

Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000)

I am co-editor of the Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory