Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, FSA, FBA (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature.[1] He is the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, having been appointed in 2012.[2][3] He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.[4]
Woudhuysen was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and gained a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1981. His thesis title was Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578–1582 and his supervisor was Katherine Duncan-Jones.[5]
In 2010, Woudhuysen was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6] Between 1995 and 2020 Woudhuysen served as a general editor for the third series of the Arden Shakespeare.[7]
References
- ^ "WOUDHUYSEN, Prof. Henry Ruxton". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ "New Rector of Lincoln College appointed". University of Oxford. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ "Professor Henry Woudhuysen". britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ Stokes, Matt (31 May 2012). "New Lincoln rector". Oxford Student. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ Woudhuysen, H. R. (1981). Leicester's literary patronage. Oxford Research Archive (Thesis). Dphil. University of Oxford.
- ^ "Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Arden Shakespeare: Third Series". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
External links
- Lincoln College biography
- Full text of his doctoral thesis via Oxford Research Archive
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