Peter Boxall (literary scholar) explained

Peter Boxall
Occupation:	Professor of English
Employer:	University of Sussex
Known For:	Editor of Textual Practice
Education:	University of Sussex

Peter Boxall, is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex.^[1]

He works on contemporary literature, literary theory and literary modernism. Boxall is notable as the editor of the well-established journal of literary theory, Textual Practice, for his editorship of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and The Oxford History of the Novel, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940, and for his work on contemporary fiction, most notably Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Value of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2015).^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[7]

Published works

Articles

• 2015: Science, technology and the posthuman. The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction Since 1945.
• 2012: Late: Fictional Time in the Twenty-First Century. Contemporary Literature, pp. 681–712.
• 2011: The threshold of vision: the animal gaze in Becket, Sebald, and Coetzee. Journal of Beckett Studies, 20 (2). pp. 120–148
• 2008: "There's no lack of void": waste and abundance in Beckett and DeLillo. SubStance, 37(2). pp. 56–70.
• 2007: Boxall, Peter, Hadfield, Andrew, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celene. Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.

Books

• 2015: Boxall, Peter The value of the novel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• 2013: Boxall, Peter Twenty-first century fiction: a critical introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• 2009: Boxall, Peter Since Beckett: contemporary writing in the wake of modernism. Continuum Literary Studies . Continuum.

Editor

• 2010: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Revised and Updated Edition.
• 2006: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof Peter Boxall. 2016-01-01. University of Sussex.
2. Web site: Editorial Board. 2016-01-01. Textual Practice. Taylor & Francis.
3. Book: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. 2006. Universe Publishing (Rizzoli International). New York, NY. 978-0789313706. 960. Boxall. 64385200. Peter. registration.
4. Book: The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. Oxford University Press. 2016. 9780198749394. Oxford. Boxall. Peter. Cheyette. Bryan.
5. Book: Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First-Century Fiction. Cambridge University Press. 2013. 9780521187299. Cambridge.
6. Book: Boxall, Peter. The Value of the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 2015. 9781107637245. Cambridge.
7. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024 . thebritishacademy.ac.uk . The British Academy . 24 July 2024 . 18 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240724115250/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-in-2024/ . 24 July 2024.