Dr Peter Wright
Peter Wright is currently Reader in Speculative Fictions. Although he was appointed to the English Department in 1999 to teach English literature, with specialisms in Science Fiction, Utopian and Anti-Utopian Writing and Film Studies, he designed, co-wrote and validated the Film Studies Programme in 2001. He oversaw its successful revalidation in 2004 and validated Film Studies with Film and Television Production the same year.
On the film programme, he currently teaches FLM 1001 How to Read a Film, FLM 2007 Censorship and the Cinema, FLM 3002 Film Genre: A Case Study (Horror Film) and FLM 3005 Text to Screen. In English, he leads two literature modules on Science Fiction and Narrative in Fiction, Film, Sequential Art and Interactive Media (known as 'Beyond Books'). He also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in literature and film studies. His last PhD student attained her doctorate without corrections and published a book based upon her thesis the following year.
He gained a First Class Honours Degree from Edge Hill University with a commendation from the Senate of Lancaster University. Four years later, he obtained his Ph.D. from Liverpool University. His thesis, 'A Conundrum Wrapped in an Enigma: Rereading Gene Wolfe's Fictions of the New Sun' was published in 2003 by Liverpool University Press. His research into science fiction in a variety of media remains a significant part of his scholarly activity.
Research
- Science Fiction: Curriculum and Practice
- Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations
- Critical Forces: Reading Star Wars and the Expanded Universe
- Visible Men: Masculinity in British Science Fiction
Publications
Books
- Shadows of the New Sun: Gene Wolfe on Readers, Writers and Writing (Liverpool University Press, due April 2007)
- British Television Science Fiction (I. B. Tauris, 2005) co-edited with John Cook
- Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (Liverpool University Press, 2003)
Chapters
- “British Television Science Fiction”, in D. Seed (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Science Fiction (Blackwell, 2005)
- “The British Post-Alien Intrusion Film”, in I. Q. Hunter (ed.) British Science Fiction Cinema (Routledge, 1999)
Articles
- “Intertextuality, Generic Shift and Ideological Transformation in the Internationalising of Doctor Who”, Foundation; Volume 92, Autumn 2004
- “The Shared World of Doctor Who from The New Adventures to The Regeneration” in Foundation; Volume 75, Spring 1999
- “Selling Mars: Burroughs, Barsoom and Expedient Xenography” in Foundation; Volume 68, Autumn, 1996
- “God Games: Cosmic Conspiracies and Narrative Sleights in Gene Wolfe's The Fictions of the New Sun” in Foundation; Volume 66, Spring, 1996
- “Grasping the God-Games: Metafictional Keys to the Interpretation of Gene Wolfe's The Fictions of the New Sun” in Foundation; Volume 66, Spring, 1996
Critical Reviews
- 'A Son of the Rock' by Jack Deighton in Foundation; Volume 70, Spring 1997
- 'Blade Runner 3': 'Replicant Night' by K. W. Jeter in Foundation; Volume 69, Winter, 1996/7
- 'Lethe' by Tricia Sullivan in Foundation; Volume 67, Summer, 1996
- 'Pollen' by Jeff Noon in The Science Fiction Research Association Review; No. 224, July/August, 1996
- 'Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human' by K. W. Jeter in Foundation; Volume 66, Spring, 1996
- 'Lexicon Urthus': A 'Dictionary for the Urth Cycle' by Michael Andre-Driussi in SFRA Review; No. 219, September/October, 1995. Reprinted in SFRA Review; No. 221, Jan/Feb, 1996
- 'Attack of the Movie Monster Makers': 'Interview with Twenty Genre Giants' by Tom Weaver in SFRA Review; No. 215, January/February, 1995
- 'Fantastic Voyages': 'Teaching Science Through Science Fiction Film' by Leroy DuBeck et al., in Foundation; Volume 62, Winter, 1994/5
- 'The Chronicles of Pern': 'First Fall' by Anne McCaffery in Foundation; Volume 62, Winter, 1994/5
- 'The Ultimate Island': On the Nature of British Science Fiction by Nicholas Ruddick in SFRA Review; No. 214, November/December 1994
- 'The Opoponax Invasion' by John Brosnan, Foundation; Volume 61, Summer, 1994.