John Frodsham.

About John Frodsham

John David Frodsham was a British-born Australian academic who held posts in various areas of literary studies in Iraq, Malaya, Tanzania, and Australia. After studies at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he worked at the University of Baghdad before completing his doctorate at the Australian National University with a thesis on Xie Lingyun. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1969. He became the Foundation Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University as Foundation Dean of the School of Human Communication from 1973 to 1976.