Peter Mack (academic)

Peter William David Mack FBA (16 April 1955 – 5 October 2023) was a British academic who was director of The Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015.[1][2] He succeeded Charles Hope[3] and was succeeded by David Freedberg.[4] He was a specialist in the history of rhetoric and was formerly professor of English at the University of Warwick.

Mack died in a traffic collision in France, on 5 October 2023, at the age of 68.[5][6]

Selected publications

• Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Leiden, 1993)
• Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2002)
• A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford, 2011)

References

1. "Professor Peter Mack obituary". The Times. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
2. "Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
3. "Charles Hope | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
5. Hadfield, Andrew (13 October 2023). "Peter Mack obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
6. "Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955–2023)". University of Warwick. Retrieved 13 October 2023.