Academic Jobs - Home of Higher Ed Logo

Ratings & reviews

4.08/20/2025

Makes every class a rewarding experience.

4.05/21/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

5.03/31/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages open-minded and thoughtful discussions.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

Taught by or worked with Peter?

Add your rating. It takes about 30 seconds.

About Peter

Peter Otto serves as the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne and as Executive Director of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) Research Unit within the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2004, he previously held the position of ARC Research Professor (DORA) at the same institution. Otto has published extensively on William Blake, Gothic fictions, dark Romanticism, popular entertainments, the prehistory of virtual reality, Romanticism and contemporary culture, the history of imagination and imagination-machines, the pasts and futures of virtual reality, the post-secular, and exchanges between architecture, fiction, imagination, and experience. His scholarship connects Enlightenment and Romantic traditions to modern phenomena, including virtual realities and biopolitics, influencing interdisciplinary studies through leadership of the ERCC, which addresses themes such as critique, creativity, comparison, actual, mixed and virtual realities, and non-European enlightenments and romanticisms.