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 Neil Kenny FBA
Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.
Professor Gordon Campbell FBA
Renaissance & seventeenth century English literature, especially John Milton; ancient & modern European literatures; cultural history, especially art, architecture, garden history, legal history & Biblical studies; the contemporary Islamic world
