Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan is Professor and Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Sydney. His research explores world literature, German/European literary traditions, intellectual history, and queer literature, with particular focus on authors like Ismail Kadare and Stefan George.

Research interests include:

• Dictatorship and literary resistance in communist regimes
• Emergence of homosexual identity in European modernist literature
• Transnational literary theory and cross-cultural translation

Morgan's publications demonstrate sustained engagement with Balkan literature, European identity formation, and the politics of translation. His recent work examines literature's role in post-dictatorship reconciliation and the construction of sexual identities in historical contexts.

Awards include Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He currently supervises graduate research on European cultural authenticity and Nabokov studies.