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 Nordic world
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Gordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester, where he has worked since 1979. His previous posts were lectureships at University of Liverpool and Aarhus University. He has also worked as lead historian for the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC and in various capacities for HM Government, particularly the Foreign Office. Professor Campbell is a Renaissance and seventeenth-century specialist with particular interests in John Milton and the King James Bible. Broader interests in cultural history on which he publishes include art, architecture, Biblical studies, classical antiquity, garden history, legal history, historical theology and the Nordic world. He holds the degrees of DPhil and DLitt from University of York, and honorary doctorates from Bucharest University and University of Leicester; he was honoured with a Festschrift in 2015. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Linnean Society, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society, an Honorary Fellow (and past president) of the English Association and a Corresponding Fellow of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Professor Campbell has made academic and professional visits to more than 70 countries and has travelled with scholarly intent in many others.

Current post

Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester

Publications

The 1611 King James Bible: Complete Original Spelling Edition, OUP, 2026

Norse America: the story of a founding myth, OUP, 2021

The Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome, OUP, 2014

Bible: the Story of the King James Version 1611-2011, OUP, 2010

Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art 3 vols, OUP, 2009

John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (with Thomas Corns), OUP, 2008

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture 2 vols, OUP, 2007

Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts 2 vols, OUP, 2006

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, OUP, 2003

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British and Irish Literature, 1660-1820; narrative and the novel; history of the book; literature, politics and law; the theory and practice of textual editing

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