Professor Ian Donaldson FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1993
Year of birth
1935
Year of death
2020
Subjects
Literature

Summary

English Language and Literature

Past appointments

Other Foreign Institutions Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne

2007 -

University of Cambridge Grace I Professor of English

1995 - 2002

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1991 - 1995

Australian National University Professor of English and from 1974 Director, Humanities Research Centre

1969 - 1991

Wadham College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

1962 - 1969

Publications

Cambridge Edition of Works of Ben Jonson 7 vols print + online 2012 print; 2014, 2015 online

The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding 1970

Ben Jonson A Life 2012

The rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations 1982

Ben Jonson 1985

Jonson's Magic houses: essays in interpretation 1997

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.

Alison Shell FBA

Professor Jeremy Robbins FBA

Spanish early modern art, literature, moral and political thought, and mysticism; seventeenth-century court culture, particularly Calderón de la Barca and Velázquez; Baltasar Gracián and the Jesuits

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Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history

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