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Professor Ian Donaldson FBA

Elected 1993

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth
1935
Year of death
2020
Year elected
1993
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/professor-ian-donaldson

English Language and Literature

Past appointments

Other Foreign Institutions Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne

2007 -

University of Cambridge Grace I Professor of English

1995 - 2002

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1991 - 1995

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

1969 - 1991

Wadham College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

1962 - 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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lorna Hutson FBA

The literature of the English Renaissance, with special interests in legal or forensic rhetoric, women's writing and Anglo-Scots relations

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Professor Catriona Seth FBA

French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography

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Professor Susanne Kord FBA

German literature (18th/19th centuries); reception and history of women’s literature; literary anonymity and pseudonyms; cultural history of antisemitism; crime genres (literature and film); genre film and philosophy

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