Peter Mack (academic)


Peter William David Mack was a British academic who was director of The Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015. He succeeded Charles Hope and was succeeded by David Freedberg. He was a specialist in the history of rhetoric and was formerly professor of English at the University of Warwick.
Mack died in a traffic collision in France, on 5 October 2023, at the age of 68.

Selected publications

  • Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic
  • Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice
  • ''A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620''