Peter Goodall (born 1949) is an Australian academic and author.
In the mid-2000s he was Acting Dean of Humanities at
Macquarie University
Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...
in the absence of Dean
Christina Slade
Christina M. Slade (born 1953) is an Australian academic and author who was Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University, England, from 2012 to 2017.
Biography
Slade is an Emeritus Professor of Bath Spa University, having held the position of Vice- ...
. 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
The University of Southern Queensland (branded as UniSQ and formerly branded as USQ) is a medium-sized, regional university based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, with three university campuses at Toowoomba, Springfield and Ipswich. It offe ...
,
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
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, detailing work of
George Orwell
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and
Evelyn Waugh
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.
From 2004 Goodall has been the editor of ''AUMLA'' the journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA).
Goodall specialises in the study of medieval literature especially
Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...
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.
In 2009 he was the joint editor of ''Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 2000'', which details all published "editions, translations, and scholarship written on" two of Chaucer's tales, during the twentieth century.
Goodall has worked on a cultural and literary study of the concept of privacy. In 2010 he co-authored a paper, "Information Retrieval and Social Tagging for Digital Libraries Using Formal Concept Analysis", delivered at the 8th International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies and published in ''Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future'' (2010).
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References
1949 births
Living people
Australian non-fiction writers
Chaucer scholars
Academic staff of the University of Southern Queensland
Male non-fiction writers
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