Professor John Woodhouse FBA

Italian Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1995
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Last post

Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies Emeritus, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Fiat Serena Professor of Italian Studies

1990 - 2001

Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow

1984 - 1989

St Cross College University of Oxford Fellow

1973 - 1984

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Italian

1973 - 1984

University of Hull Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Italian

1966 - 1973

Publications

Vincenzio Borghini, Scritti inediti o rari sulla lingua 1971

Baldesar Castiglione: a reassessment of 'The courtier' 1978

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant archangel 1998

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 David A Lines FBA

An intellectual historian, David Lines has a varied international background, from his upbringing in Italy to his university studies in the USA (PhD in History, Harvard, 1997)

David Lines FBA

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri FBA

Thought and literature of the European Renaissance; Shakespeare and Early Modern English literature; Rabindranath Tagore; textual studies; translation and translation studies; digital humanities

Sukanta Chaudhuri FBA

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