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 John Barrell FBA
English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography
Professor Virginia Cox FBA
Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing
