Peter Conrad (born 1948) is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature, who taught at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
He became a fellow of All Souls College from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church.
There he taught English from 1973, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and at Williams College, and a guest lecturer throughout the United States.
He has written books of criticism on Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock and has been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, the New Statesman, and The Monthly.
[4] A review by Richard Poirier of Conrad's 1980 book Imagining America in the London Review of Books found it "so slipshod, with such fundamental and pointedly homophobic misunderstandings of Oscar Wilde, Rupert Brooke and W. H. Auden", that the reviewer wondered how it made it into print.