Dougal McNeill

New Zealand academic

Forecasts of the past: globalisation, history and contemporary realism (2008)

Dougal Shelton McNeill is a New Zealand academic and as of 2021 is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the Victoria University of Wellington.^[1]

Academic career

After a 2008 PhD titled Forecasts of the past: globalisation, history and contemporary realism at the University of Melbourne, McNeill worked at Sophia University, Tokyo Woman's Christian University and the University of Melbourne. before moving to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to senior lecturer.^[1]

In 2015, he called a visit to Victoria University of Wellington by Israeli soldiers "a propaganda project".^[2]

McNeill is involved in the Tertiary Education Union.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Books

McNeill's books include:

McNeill, Dougal (2005). The many lives of Galileo : Brecht, theatre and translation's political unconscious. Oxford: P. Lang. ISBN 3-03910-536-1. OCLC 61178224.^[6]
McNeill, Dougal (2012). Forecasts of the past : globalisation, history, realism, utopia. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0353-0339-1. OCLC 813844953.^[7]
Ferrall, Charles (2015). Writing the 1926 General Strike : literature, culture, politics. Dougal McNeill. New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-107-10003-9. OCLC 894670692.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^[8]
British Literature in Transition, 1920–1940: Futility and Anarchy (edited with Charles Ferrall, Cambridge University Press, 2018)^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ""Academic biography"". people.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
^ "Israeli troops at Vic Uni an 'apology for military violence' – academic". Stuff. 28 September 2015.
^ "Victoria University of Wellington – TEU". teu.ac.nz.
^ "Victoria University staff prepped for job losses as $33.5 million loss is forecast in 2021". Stuff. 9 September 2020.
^ "Large-scale compulsory redundancies unlikely, Victoria University has announced". Stuff. 10 March 2021.
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Reviews of The Many Lives of Galileo:
- Barnett, David (January 2007). The Modern Language Review. 102 (1): 281–283. doi:10.1353/mlr.2007.0315. JSTOR 20467256. S2CID 246647750.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Bradley, Laura (2007). International Brecht Yearbook. 32: 412–414.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of Forecasts of the Past:
- Davidson, Rjurik (27 February 2014). "Back to the future?". Overland.
- Taylor, Elinor (2013). Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism (11): 130–132. JSTOR 26920349.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of Writing the 1926 General Strike:
- Renton, David. "It's a funny country..." Review31.
- Smith, Stan (2018). Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism (16): 103–107. JSTOR 26976114.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Vale, Mika (December 2016). Critical Quarterly. 58 (4): 161–164. doi:10.1111/criq.12312.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Review of British Literature in Transition:
- Elliott, Brian (2 October 2020). "Review". Marx & Philosophy Review of Books.