Chris Ackerley

Emeritus Professor Chris Ackerley was previously Chair of the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. His area of research is literary Modernism, with a specialist interest in the art and science of annotation. He has published annotative studies of James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, but his major recent work has been on Samuel Beckett. A first love, however, was Malcolm Lowry, many of whose works he has documented, and to whose masterpiece, Under the Volcano, he has dedicated a website.