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 James Raven FBA
British, western European and colonial literary, bibliographical and cultural studies; reading, library, and book trade history, the history of the novel, comparative global bibliography, Scandinavian studies.
Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA
English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography
Professor Colin Burrow FBA
Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.
