Professor Ian Donaldson

English Language and Literature

Elected 1993

Year of birth: 1935
Year of death: 2020
Year elected: 1993
Subjects: Literature
Website: http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/professor-ian-donaldson

Past appointments

Other Foreign Institutions Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Jan 2007 -

University of Cambridge Grace I Professor of English

Jan 1995 - Jan 2002

University of Edinburgh Fellow of King's College, and formerly Grace I Professor of English, University of Cambridge; and from 1 February, Professor and Interim Director, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra

Jan 1995 - Jan 2003

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

Australian National University Professor of English and from 1974 Director, Humanities Research Centre

Jan 1969 - Jan 1991

Wadham College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

Apr 1962 - Jul 1969

Publications

Cambridge Edition of Works of Ben Jonson 7 vols print + online 2012 print; 2014, 2015 online

The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding 1970

Ben Jonson A Life 2012

The rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations 1982

Ben Jonson 1985

Jonson's Magic houses: essays in interpretation 1997

Related Fellows

Professor Michel Jeanneret

French literature of the XVIth & XVIIth centuries; intellectual & cultural history of the Early modern period.

Professor Isabel Torres FBA

Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre

Professor Aurora Egido

History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions

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