Draft:Rafe David McGregor

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,    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.

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.