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 Thomas Corns FBA
The historically-informed study of seventeenth-century English literature; scholarly editing of seventeenth-century texts; stylistic criticism
Professor Tiffany Stern FBA
Shakespeare, theatre history from the 16th to the 18th century, book history and editing
Professor Stephen Greenblatt FBA
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities
