After establishing the Cultural Studies, Media and Communications and Publishing programs at Melbourne, he left for Johns Hopkins University in 2001, and taught in the English department there for nine years.
[3] He is listed as “Foucault consultant” in the film Ghosts of the Civil Dead by John Hillcoat and Nick Cave.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory notes that he was the first to use the term “post-colonialism” in its current sense, and in the 1980s helped show the degree to which the West’s culture has been shaped by imperialism.
[5] His Patrick White (1996) controversially introduced postcolonial and queer understandings to the study of Australian literature.
[7] More recently During has contributed to the study of British literary history, and analysed secularism, conservatism and the humanities generally.
[9] His father, who was a prominent soil scientist, changed his name from Cornelius Kauders to Peter During on arrival in New Zealand in the 1940s.