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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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.