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 Aurora Egido FBA

History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions

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Professor Lina Bolzoni FBA

Italian Renaissance literature; the Art of Memory; literature and philosophy, the utopian tradition, medieval vernacular preaching, chivalric poetry, treatises on women and love; literary and visual portraits; the relationship between literature and the

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Professor Paul Hammond FBA

English Language and Literature Northern Europe France

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