Dougal McNeill


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.

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.
In 2015, he called a visit to Victoria University of Wellington by Israeli soldiers "a propaganda project".
McNeill is involved in the Tertiary Education Union.

Books

McNeill's books include:
  • ''British Literature in Transition, 1920–1940: Futility and Anarchy''