Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute

 

Professor Peter Mack has been appointed as the new Director of the Warburg Institute, one of the 10 prestigious Institutes that make up the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

Professor Mack, who is currently at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, will assume the Directorship from 1 October 2010 on secondment.

Professor Roger Kain, Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study, said: “I am delighted that we have been able to secure the services of Professor Mack to succeed Professor Charles Hope as the eighth Director of this uniquely valuable Institute. He brings with him a wealth of experience and scholarship that ideally suit him to the role and I look forward to working together to ensure that the Institute continues to prosper.”

Professor Mack said: “I am honoured to have been chosen as Director of the Warburg Institute, one of the great humanities institutes of the world, with an unrivalled collection in renaissance studies and the history of the classical tradition. The Institute is greatly indebted to Charles Hope for his skilful and selfless leadership. I hope that in future the Institute will play an even more prominent international role in the development of medieval and renaissance research.”

After studying English at Oxford University (1973–6) and receiving his MPhil in Combined Historical Studies (The Renaissance) from the Warburg Institute (1976–8), Professor Mack held a Leverhulme European studentship in Rome in 1978–9 before being appointed lecturer in English and Comparative Literary Studies in September 1979.

He was appointed Professor of English at Warwick in 2001 and has been Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Chair of the English Department. He held a British Academy Readership and was editor of Rhetorica, the leading international journal for History of Rhetoric. His main works are Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Leiden, 1993) and Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2002).

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Notes for editors:

The Warburg Institute occupies a unique place in European intellectual life. It is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the classical tradition, that is, exploring the abiding influence of the ancient world on the art, thought, literature, religion and social customs of Europe and the Near East. For further information – http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/index.html.

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of 10 prestigious postgraduate research Institutes to offer academic opportunities across a wide range of subject fields in the humanities and social sciences. It is a unique centre for scholarship and is the only nationally-funded institution dedicated to the facilitation and promotion of research within its subject fields in the UK. For further information – http://www.sas.ac.uk/

 

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