Dr Will Slocombe BA, MA, PhD (Wales), PGCtHE
Reader English
- Work email 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
- "On System Interrupts and the Structural Imagination" , Keynote/Plenary by Invitation ("Glitches and Ghosts", Lancaster University, 2019)
- "There is No Escape from Here (Wherever Here Is): Fantasies of Control in Fictions of Artificial Intelligence", Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (GIFCON 2018: Escaping Escapism in Fantasy and the Fantastic, 2018)
- "Emergent Patterns (#1): Welcome to the Machine", by Invitation (The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge: AI Narratives Workshop, 2017)
- “From Sci-fi to Real life - True Fiction” (with Dr David Reid). Blue Skies Session, by Invitation (International Festival of Business / Writing on the Wall, 2016)
- “Assessment in HE English, or, Is There a Test in This Class?” , by Invitation (CCUE, 2014)
- “Writing on the Edge.”, by Invitation (Portsmouth Council / University of Southampton, 2011)
Editorships
- Modern Language Review (Book reviewer)
- Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction (Book reviewer)
- New Welsh Review (Book reviewer)
- Style (Book reviewer)
- English (Book reviewer)
- Philosophy and Literature (Book reviewer)
- Planet Magazine (Book reviewer)
- Style (Peer reviewer)
- Studies in the Novel (Peer reviewer)
- Language and Literature (Peer reviewer)
- Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (Peer reviewer)
- Contemporary Literature (Peer reviewer)
- Palgrave Macmillan (Peer reviewer)
- Manchester University Press (Peer reviewer)
- Foundation: The International Journal of Science Fiction (Reviews Editor, 2017 - present)
- Science Fiction Studies (Peer reviewer, 2017 - present)
- Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (Guest Editor, 2008)
- Writing Technologies (Editorial Advisory Board Member, 2007 - present)
Examination Roles
- MRes, "Spatialities of Surveillance Capitalism" (MPhil, 2021)
- MRes, "The Superchild in Scientific Romance" (MPhil, 2020)
- University of Waikato, PhD “A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s – 2010s” (2016)
- Sheffield Hallam University, MA by Research “Print’s Remediation of the Digital” (2016)
- University of Wales Aberystwyth, PhD “Lyotard, the Differend and Literature” (2010)
- Nottingham Trent University, PhD “The ‘Zone of Becoming’: Game, Text and Technicity in the Computer Game Narrative” (2010)
- University of Wales Aberystwyth, PhD “Posthuman Subjects and Postmodern Geographies: Re-reading Cyberpunk Fiction” (2009)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- Co-Founder (FLiNT: Futures Literacy through Narrative)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Being Human Festival of the Humanities (School of Advanced Study, University of London) (2016)
- Being Human Festival of the Humanities (School of Advanced Study, University of London) (2015)
Professional Body Memberships
- Science Fiction Foundation (Member, 2016 - present)
- Science Fiction Research Association (Member, 2016 - present)
- Institute of Mental Health (Fellow, 2012 - 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)