Peter McDonald
Speaker
Peter McDonald teaches English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is the author of The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-making the Reader (2024), Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing (2017), The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (2009), British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 (1997), and co-author of PEN: An Illustrated History (2021). He is currently working on a book about re-imagining a literary education in the age of artificial intelligence.
