Colin Arthur Roderick CBE (27 July 1911 – 16 June 2000) was an Australian writer, editor, academic and educator.

He later graduated from the same university with a B.Ed., an M.A., an M.Ed., and finally, in 1954, with a Ph.D. for which he wrote a thesis on Australian novelist Rosa Praed.

[3] Roderick worked as editor for the Australian publisher and bookseller Angus & Robertson from 1945 through 1965 and was the firm's director in 1961–65.

[citation needed] During the 1950s, he played an "instrumental" role in the setting up of a chair of Australian literature at the University of Sydney.

[6] After retiring, Roderick was made emeritus professor in English at James Cook University and subsequently received an honorary Litt.D.