Background
Conrad was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and attended Hobart High School.
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Peter Conrad
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Education
New College.
Career
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Aftering graduating from the University of Tasmania in 1968, Conrad went to Oxford University, United Kingdom, on a Rhodes Scholarship, studying at New College. He became a fellow of All Souls College from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church.
There he taught English since 1973, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and at Williams College, and a guest lecturer throughout the United States.
He has written a number of works of criticism including a major history of English literature, The Everyman History of English Literature, a cultural history of the twentieth century, two autobiographical works and a novel. He has written books of criticism on Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock and has been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, the New Statesman, and The Monthly.
