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Will Slocombe

Dr Will Slocombe
BA, MA, PhD (Wales), PGCtHE

Reader
English
Part of
School of the Arts
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

W.Slocombe@liverpool.ac.uk

Professional Activities

Selected Professional Activities

External Administrative or Committee Role

  • Co-Founder (FLiNT: Futures Literacy through Narrative) (External Administrative or Committee Role)

Conference Roles

  • "What does it mean to 'Narrate' the 'Future'? Perspectives and Speculations" at Narrating the Future, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Bristol, 2024)
  • "On System Interrupts and the Structural Imagination" at Glitches and Ghosts, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Lancaster University, 2019)
  • "There is No Escape from Here (Wherever Here Is): Fantasies of Control in Fictions of Artificial Intelligence" at GIFCON 2018, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Glasgow University, 2018)
  • "Emergent Patterns (#1): Welcome to the Machine" at AI Narratives Workshop, by Invitation (The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, 2017)

Editorships

  • Foundation: the international review of science fiction (Advisory Editor, 2019 - present)
  • Foundation: The International Journal of Science Fiction (Reviews Editor, 2017 - 2019)
  • Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (Guest Editor, 2008)

Examination Roles

  • University of Oxford, PhD [English] "Mysteries of Science Fiction: Postcritique, Cognition, and Genre" (2024)
  • Cardiff University, PhD [English] "Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" (2024)
  • University of Queensland, PhD [Creative Writing] "Writing the Speculative Fiction Series" (2024)
  • University of Birmingham, PhD [English] "Attitude is Everything: The Importance of Cyberpunk to Contemporary Society" (2023)
  • University of Birmingham, PhD [Creative Writing] "Post-Cinematic Anxiety: The Palace View" (2023)
  • University of Glasgow, PhD [English] "Mythological Cognition in Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy" (2023)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "'If There Were a Hell on Earth': Katabasis and Representations of Hell in Contemporary American and America-centred Fiction" (2023)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "The Performance of Gender in the Works of David Foster Wallace" (2021)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [Creative Writing] "Vital Signs – Towards affirmative fiction: gender, autofiction, fiction" (2020)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "Themes & Technique in Steve Erickson’s Fiction" (2019)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "Mapping Planet Auschwitz: Non-Mimetic Writing and the Holocaust in Anglo-American Fiction" (2017)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "The Politics of Nostalgia in Four Dystopian Novels" (2017)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "'Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun': Crises of Identity in the Cold War Writings of Alfred Bester, 1950-1960" (2016)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD [English] "From Fantasy and Metafiction to Metafantasy and Neil Gaiman" (2015)
  • MRes [English], "Spatialities of Surveillance Capitalism" (MPhil, 2021)
  • MRes [English], "The Superchild in Scientific Romance" (MPhil, 2020)
  • University of Waikato, PhD [History] “A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s – 2010s” (2016)
  • Sheffield Hallam University, MA by Research [English] “Print’s Remediation of the Digital” (MPhil, 2016)
  • University of Wales Aberystwyth, PhD [English] “Lyotard, the Differend and Literature” (2010)
  • Nottingham Trent University, PhD [English] “The ‘Zone of Becoming’: Game, Text and Technicity in the Computer Game Narrative” (2010)
  • University of Wales Aberystwyth, PhD [English] “Posthuman Subjects and Postmodern Geographies: Re-reading Cyberpunk Fiction” (2009)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Trustee, Invited (Science Fiction Foundation, 2019 - present)
  • Futures Advisory Group Member, Invited (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, 2020 - 2024)
  • Co-Founder (FLiNT: Futures Literacy through Narrative)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Science Fiction Foundation (Member, 2016 - present)
  • Science Fiction Research Association (Member, 2016 - present)
  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2009 - present)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Co-Director, Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures
  • Director, MA in English Literature (Science Fiction Studies)