C J Ackerley

Chris Ackerley took his BA and MA at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Otago, New Zealand since 1976 where he is now Emeritus Professor. His speciality is annotation, particularly of the works of Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett. His books include: A Companion to Under the Volcano (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984); Demented Particulars: The Annotated “Murphy” (Tallahassee, FL: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2004); The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (London: Faber & Faber, 2006) with S. E. Gontarski; and Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated “Watt” (Tallahassee, FL: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2005).