Draft:Rafe David McGregor

Rafe McGregor
Rafe McGregor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Huddersfield; University of York; University of South Africa;
Academic work
Discipline	Criminology, Philosophy, Literary Studies

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Comment: Someone with this many published books almost certainly meets our notability guidelines for authors. Please demonstrate this with citations to in-depth reviews. asilvering (talk) 03:22, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Rafe David McGregor (born 1973) is a British critical theorist, working across the disciplines of criminology, philosophy and literary studies. Since 2023, he has been Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University. He is known for his work in narratology and critical criminology.

Education

McGregor was educated at Durban High School and awarded a BA degree in Politics and Psychology from the University of South Africa. He completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of York in 2015, under the supervision of Peter Lamarque,^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Huddersfield in 2016.

Career

Following a career in criminal justice, McGregor lectured in the School of Social and Health Sciences at Leeds Trinity University from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he moved to Edge Hill University as Senior Lecturer in Criminology.^[6]

He has held visiting positions at the University of Leeds (Philosophy), University of York (lifelong learning), University of Rijeka (philosophy), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (general and comparative literature).

McGregor has published extensively and his work includes both non-fiction and fiction. He set out the first comprehensive account of the criminological values of fiction in three books published from 2018 to 2023. He is on the editorial board of Critical Criminology: An International Journal and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Bibliography

Books (non-fiction)

Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework, Abingdon: Routledge,^[7] 2024
An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema, Abingdon: Routledge, 2024 (with David Grčki)
Literary Theory and Criminology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023
Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism, Bristol: Bristol University Press,^[8] 2021
A Criminology of Narrative Fiction, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021
Narrative Justice, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018
The Value of Literature, London: Rowman & Littlefield,^[9] 2016
Reducing Political Violence: Narrative, Critique, and Criminology, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2026
Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025

Books (fiction)

Bloody Reckoning, London: Lume Books,^[10] 2017
The Adventures of Roderick Langham, Birmingham: Theaker's Paperback Library, 2017
The Architect of Murder, London, Robert Hale, 2009.

Books (edited)

The Conan Doyle Weirdbook, Birmingham: Theaker's Paperback Library, 2012.

Articles

"Autoethnography: Analysing the World of Policing from Within," in: Jenny Fleming & Sarah Charman (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography (Abingdon: Routledge), 391-405, 2023
"Narrative Counter-Terror: Deconstruction, Deliverance, and Debilitation," Terrorism and Political Violence, 34 (7), 1471-1484, 2022
"Four Characteristics of Policing as a Practice," Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15 (3), 1842-1853, 2021
"James Ellroy's Critical Criminology: Crimes of the Powerful in the Underworld USA Trilogy," Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 29 (2), 349-365, 2021
"Towards a Deconstructed Curriculum: Rethinking Higher Education in the Global North," Teaching in Higher Education, 24 (3), 332-345, 2019 (with Miriam Sang-Ah Park)
"Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94 (2), 327-342, 2016

Reviews

Kubuala, R., 2017. McGregor, Rafe. The Value of Literature. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Harrison, B., 2018. McGregor, Rafe. The Value of Literature. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. The British Journal of Aesthetics
Rowe, M.W., 2017. McGregor, Rafe. The Value of Literature. Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, 54(1), 127-137
Worth, S.E., 2019. McGregor, Rafe. Narrative Justice. Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 77(2), 210-212
Matravers, D., 2020. Comments on Rafe McGregor’s Narrative Criminology. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 54(4), 19-25
Rajter, M., 2021. Rafe McGregor, Narrative Justice. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 21(61), 223-227
Frauley, J., 2022. Book review: Rafe McGregor, A Criminology of Narrative Fiction. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 18(1)
Szmutko, A., 2022. Rafe McGregor: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 30, 791–794
Jovanović, I.V., 2021. Rafe McGregor: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Ruggiero, V., 2022. Rafe McGregor (2021) Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11(3), 178-179
Keller. A. 2023. Rafe McGregor: Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 31, 281-284
Roberts, L.J. 2011. Reviewed by LJ Roberts: Rafe McGregor – The Architect of Murder, Mystery*File
Magson, A. A Bloody Reckoning, Review Written by Adrian Magson, Shotsmag

References

^ "A Peter Lamarque il Premio Estetica 2018". fattoadarte.corriere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ "ASA Annual Meeting". web.archive.org. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ Auty, Caroline (2017-09-13). "Richard Wollheim Lectures: BSA Annual Meeting". The British Society of Aesthetics. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ See Peter Lamarque (1981), "How Can We Fear and Pity Fictions?", British Journal of Aesthetics 21, pp. 291-304.
^ "Lamarque, Peter - Department of Philosophy, University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ Gareth (2024-03-01). "Edge Hill academic receives funding boost for international research into the impact of stories". Edge Hill University. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ "Rafe McGregor - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/
^ https://rowman.com/
^ https://www.lumebooks.co.uk/

External links

[1] "A Peter Lamarque il Premio Estetica 2018". fattoadarte.corriere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[2] "ASA Annual Meeting". web.archive.org. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[3] Auty, Caroline (2017-09-13). "Richard Wollheim Lectures: BSA Annual Meeting". The British Society of Aesthetics. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[4] See Peter Lamarque (1981), "How Can We Fear and Pity Fictions?", British Journal of Aesthetics 21, pp. 291-304.

[5] "Lamarque, Peter - Department of Philosophy, University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[6] Gareth (2024-03-01). "Edge Hill academic receives funding boost for international research into the impact of stories". Edge Hill University. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[7] "Rafe McGregor - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[8] ttps://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/

[9] ttps://rowman.com/

[10] ttps://www.lumebooks.co.uk/

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