Peter Boxall (literary scholar)

Peter Boxall
FBA
EducationUniversity of Sussex
OccupationProfessor of English
EmployerUniversity of Sussex
Known forEditor of Textual Practice
Notable work

Peter Boxall, FBA 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]

  1. ^ "Prof Peter Boxall". University of Sussex. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  2. ^ "Editorial Board". Textual Practice. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. ^ Boxall, Peter, ed. (2006). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. New York, NY: Universe Publishing (Rizzoli International). pp. 960. ISBN 978-0789313706. OCLC 64385200.
  4. ^ Boxall, Peter; Cheyette, Bryan, eds. (2016). The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198749394.
  5. ^ Boxall, Peter (2013). Twenty-First-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521187299.
  6. ^ Boxall, Peter (2015). The Value of the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107637245.
  7. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.