Dr Peter Ely

About

Peter Ely

Lecturer in English Literature

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 https://doi.org/10.7766/alluvium.v7.4.04

"Introduction" and "Beyond the Multicultural?: Queer community in Jackie Kay's Trumpet" in   Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit (Bloomsbury, 2022) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/community-in-contemporary-british-fiction-9781350244023/ 

"Subjectivity at its Limits: Fugitive Community in Kunzru's Short Stories" in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Hari Kunzru (Manchester University Press, 2022). https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526155214/9781526155214.00012.xml 

Academic responsibilities

Lecturer

Qualifications

  • PhD Kingston University
  • MA Nottingham University
  • BA Nottingham University

Teaching and learning

Research