Professor David Womersley FBA
English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
2002 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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 Lorna Hutson FBA
The literature of the English Renaissance, with special interests in legal or forensic rhetoric, women's writing and Anglo-Scots relations
Professor David A Lines FBA
An intellectual historian, David Lines has a varied international background, from his upbringing in Italy to his university studies in the USA (PhD in History, Harvard, 1997)
