Peter Boxall (literary scholar)

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]

• 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.

• 2015: Boxall, Peter The value of the novel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107637245
• 2013: Boxall, Peter Twenty-first century fiction: a critical introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107006911
• 2009: Boxall, Peter Since Beckett: contemporary writing in the wake of modernism. Continuum Literary Studies . Continuum. ISBN 9780826491671

• 2010: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Revised and Updated Edition. ISBN 9780789320391
• 2006: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.ISBN 9781844034178