Peter Goodall is currently Acting Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...

 in the absence of Dean Christina Slade. His substantive position is Deputy Dean of Humanities and Acting Head of the Politics and International Relations Department.

Goodall specialises in the study of medieval literature especially Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...

 and twentieth-century literature especially George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...

. In 1995, he published High Culture, Popular Culture: the Long Debate on the division between high culture and popular culture. He is the joint editor of the Annotated Bibliography of Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale. He is also working on a cultural and literary study of the concept of privacy.