Peter Conrad (academic)
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Peter Conrad (b. 1948, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian academic specializing in English literature, currently teaching at Christ Church at Oxford University.
Conrad moved to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1968. He became a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church. He has taught English at Christ Church, Oxford, since 1973, and has been a visiting Professor at Princeton University and at Williams College, and a guest lecturer throughout the United States. He lives in London, and spends part of each year in New York and Lisbon.
He has written a number of works of criticism including a major history of English literature, a cultural history of the twentieth century, two autobiographical works and a novel. He has also written important books of criticism on Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock. He has also been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer and the New Statesman.
He is satirized as "Mr Kurtz" in James Delingpole's novel Thinly Disguised Autobiography.
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- "Newsreel History" by Terry Eagleton: Review of Modern Times, Modern Places.
- "Frisky in Frisco": Review of Evolution's Rainbow.
