Prof Peter Boxall

Biography

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 research has focused on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in modernist and contemporary writing. I have written books on Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo, and am now writing a wide ranging book on the contemporary novel, entitled Twenty-First Century Fiction. I am currently the editor of Textual Practice.

My teaching has reflected these concerns, broadly covering literature and theory in the modern and contemporary period. I have supervised DPhil students to successful completion in a wide range of areas - in Modernism, in American literature, in Creative and Critical Writing, and in Contemporary Literature and Theory. My students have written theses on Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, John Banville, W.G. Sebald and J.M. Coetzee. I also teach masters and undergraduate courses on modern and contemporary writing, and on utopian fiction and theory.

I welcome applications from doctoral students in all areas of modern and contemporary literature.

Role

Professor of English

Director of Student Support

Boxall, Peter (2012) Late: Fictional Time in the Twenty-First Century. Contemporary Literature, 53 (4). pp. 681-712. ISSN 0010-7484

Boxall, Peter, Hadfield, Andrew, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celine (2007) Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 15 (1). xi. ISSN 1077-4254