Peter D. McDonald

St Hugh's College, Oxford

Peter D. McDonald is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. He teaches world literatures in English from the Victorian period to the present day and critical theory. His research interests lie primarily in the history of the category of the literary, the relationship between literary institutions and the modern state and publishing history.

His principal publications include British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 (Cambridge, 1997) and Making Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and Other Essays by D F McKenzie, eds Peter D McDonald and Michael Suarez (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002). His new book The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences will be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.