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 Catriona Seth FBA

French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography

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Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine

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Professor Valerie Rumbold FBA

18th-century poetry and satire, particularly Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; textual editing; the 18th-century book

Valerie Rumbold FBA

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