Alexander William McHoul (born 14 June 1952) is a British-Australian academic.
He is an emeritus professor at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.
McHoul was born in Wallasey, a town on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
[citation needed] In 1978 he received a PhD from Australian National University, with a thesis titled Telling how texts talk: from readings of Wittgenstein, Schutz, ethnomethodology and the sociology of literature to the analysis of readings.
[2] Douglas Ezzy says, 'His [McHoul's] theoretical range is wide, drawing on Wittgenstein, Saussure, ethnomethodology [and] phenomenology'..[3]