Peter Goodall

Who is Peter Goodall?

Peter Goodall is an Australian academic and author. In the mid-2000s he was Acting Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University in the absence of Dean Christina Slade. His substantive position was Deputy Dean of Humanities and Acting Head of the Politics and International Relations Department. By 2009 he had transferred to the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba campus where he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

In the 1980s Goodall broadcast a series of Weekend University programs on radio station, 2SER, detailing work of George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh. From 2004 Goodall has been the editor of AUMLA the journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association.

Goodall specialises in the study of medieval literature especially Chaucer and twentieth-century literature especially Orwell. In 1995, he published High Culture, Popular Culture: the Long Debate on the division between high culture and popular culture.