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 Dame Marina Warner FBA
History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature
Professor Robert Crawford FBA
Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA
German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature
