Peter is a scholar of 20th and 21st century global anglophone literatures, with a particular interest in experimental or innovative forms. He joined Buckingham in 2023, having previously worked at the University of Bristol, and the University of Lincoln. Peter’s current research interests are in migration, refugee, and genocide studies, and his present monograph project (Always Again: World Literature and Post-Holocaust Genocide) examines post-holocaust genocide writing across global fiction and life writing.
Peter welcomes prospective research students in any aspect of literature from 1900-present.
Publications
Single-Authored Books
- Sloane, P. From Rupture to Refuge: Tracing the Refugee in 21st Century Fiction and Life Writing (Liverpool UP, 2024)
- Sloane, P. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics (Bloomsbury, 2021)
- Sloane, P. David Foster Wallace and the Body (Routledge, 2019)
Edited Books
- Sloane, P. (ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis (Edinburgh University Press, October 2023)
- Sloane, P. and K. Shaw (eds.), Kazuo Ishiguro: 21st Century Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers
- Sloane, P. ‘When We Were Humans’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Aloning’, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 57.2 (2024)
- Sloane, P. ‘Literatures of Resistance Under US Cultural Siege: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Narratives of Occupation’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.2 (2018) pp. 154-167
- Sloane, P. ‘Kinetic Iconography: Anderson, Parajanov, and the Illusion of Motion’, Texas Studies in Literature and Language 60.2 (2018) pp. 246-268
- Sloane, P. ‘The Divided Selves of David Foster Wallace’, Topos, 1.1 (2013), pp. 67-73.
Journal Special Issues
- Sloane P., and Alice Bennett, eds., The Short Things: Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies Special Edition, 1:2, Winter 2019.
Book Chapters
- Sloane, P. ‘Screenplays and Film Scripts’, in ed. Andrew Bennett, The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. ‘A Lovers Hand. A Breath. An Abyss’: Aloneness in the Films of Claire Denis’, in ed. Peter Sloane, ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. ‘Introduction’, in ed. Peter Sloane, ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. ‘One of Us: Corpo-Reality and the Disabled Body in the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky’, in ed. Michael Witte, ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. ‘Empathy and the Ethics of Posthuman Reading’, in eds. Peter Sloane and Kristian Shaw, Kazuo Ishiguro: 21st Century Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. and K. Shaw, ‘Introduction’, in eds. Peter Sloane and Kristian Shaw, Kazuo Ishiguro: 21st Century Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2023)
- Sloane, P. ‘Disability’, in ed. Clare Hayes-Brady, David Foster Wallace in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Sloane, P. ‘Devouring Mechanization: Arthur Miller and the Proto-Posthuman’, in eds. Stephen Marino and David Palmer, Arthur Miller for the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2020) pp. 293-309
- Sloane, P. ‘Grand Narratives of Social Justice in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist’, in eds. Jeff Birkenstein and Robert Hauhart, Critical Insights: American Literature and Social Justice (Salem Press, 2017) pp. 212-228
Reviews
- Sloane, P. ‘Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature. By Mitchum Huehls.’ Modern Language Review 118.4 (Spring 2023), pp.
Journalism and Media Articles
- Sloane, P. ‘Some Members are More Equal than Others: UCU, UCEA, and National Bargaining’, Times Higher Education, February 9th 2023
Qualifications
BA English (Bristol)
MPhil English (Bristol)
PhD English (Bristol)