Michael Wilding is emeritus professor of English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

His books include Milton's Paradise Lost (Sydney University Press, 1969), Dragon Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution (Clarendon Press, 1987), The Paraguayan Experiment (Penguin, 1985), a documentary novel about the New Australia settlement, and most recently Academia Nuts (Wild & Wooley, 2nd edition 2003), a swan song for the campus novel.