Dr Peter Ely
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Lecturer in English Literature
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
My research interests lie at the intersection of contemporary literature, continental philosophy and critical theory, with particular focus on questions of ‘community', gender and sexuality and ‘race'. I am currently completing a monograph entitled The Politics of Community in Contemporary British Fiction. I am co-editor of Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit (Bloomsbury, 2022) and contributed a chapter to Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Hari Kunzru (Manchester University Press, 2022).
I currently teach the 'Being Human' Foundation module.
Published texts
- Queer Kinship in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers (1991), Alluvium, 2019
- "Introduction" and "Beyond the Multicultural?: Queer community in Jackie Kay's Trumpet" in Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit (Bloomsbury, 2022)
- "Subjectivity at its Limits: Fugitive Community in Kunzru's Short Stories" in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Hari Kunzru (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Qualifications
- PhD Kingston University
- MA Nottingham University
- BA Nottingham University
Domains
- English Literature MA: Trauma and Justice, Module Convener.
- Humanities Foundation: Humanities in Action and Being Human
Forthcoming
- (2023) I am converting my thesis into a book entitled Contemporary British Literature and the Politics of Community for Bloomsbury for publication in 2023.
- (2022) I am co-editing a collection with Sara Upstone entitled Community in Contemporary Fiction for publication with Bloomsbury for publication in 2022. I co-wrote the introduction to the collection as well as writing a chapter entitled "Beyond the Multicultural: Queer Community in Jackie Kay's Trumpet". ISBN, 9781350244023.
- (2022) My chapter "Subjectivity at its Limits: Fugitive Community in Kunzru's Short Stories" will come out in Hari Kunzru: Critical Perspectives ed. Sara Upstone and Kristian Shaw with Manchester University Press in 2022
Completed
- (2019) My article "Queer Kinship in the work of Jackie Kay" was published in the August/September (2019) edition of the online peer-reviewed journal Alluvium. ISSN 2050-1560
Specialisms
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Philosophies of Community
- Critical Theory
- Bid Writing