Richard Paul Teleky (born 1946) is a Canadian writer and academic, currently a professor in the Humanities Department at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
His doctoral thesis, The Literary Significance of The Golden Bough, focused on the impact of Victorian anthropology, myth studies, and the work of Sir James Frazer on modernist literature.
As editor of this series, Teleky worked with many of Canada's leading literary and academic writers, commissioning and editing books on a wide range of subjects.
One of his most noted projects was Adele Wiseman's essay collection Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood.
In 1991 he returned to academic life as a professor in the Humanities Department of York University, where he became administrator of the undergraduate creative writing program for a decade.