HM the Queen has appointed Dr Peter Robert Keith Andrew Davidson to the Regius Chair of English at the University of Aberdeen.
Dr Davidson (42) is presently Reader in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1978 with a BA (MA) Honours degree in English Literature. He completed his postgraduate MA at the University of York in 1979 and PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Dr Davidson began his academic career in 1979 as an Undergraduate Supervisor at the University of Cambridge. He returned to Cambridge as a Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College in 1987. In 1988 Dr Davidson moved to St Andrew’s University as Research Fellow on a Wingate postdoctoral research scholarship. Subsequently, between 1989-90, Dr Davidson was employed as a lecturer at St Andrew’s and as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Stirling. Following this experience, he travelled to The Netherlands to take up a position as a lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Book Studies at the University of Leiden. Dr Davidson returned to Britain in 1992 to take up a post as lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has remained in this Department until present, progressing to Senior Lecturer then Reader.
Dr Davidson will take up the post with effect from 1st September 2000.
Further information from:
University Press Office on telephone +44 (0)1224-273778 or email a.ramsay@admin.abdn.ac.uk.