He teaches part-time for the Oxford programmes of Stanford University and Sarah Lawrence and offers a translation workshop for the Creative Writing MSt.
His essays have been published in several books including: Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery; Writers on Art; Literary Activism; he has also written catalogue essays for exhibitions by Arturo Di Stefano and Donald Wilkinson, and an introduction to Tom Lubbock's English Graphic (Francis Lincoln, 2012).
A collection of his writings on art, poetry and translation, The Foreign Connection, was published by Legenda, 2020, ISBN 978-1-78188-500-0 McKendrick has translated six books of fiction by the Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani, including The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, published as individual volumes by Penguin and, for the first time in English, in a collected edition by Penguin and by Norton in the US.
His translations of Giorgio Bassani were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize and for the John Florio award.
Awards received include: McKendrick's poems have appreared in translation in France, Italy, Germany, in Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Iran, Spain, and Argentina.