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

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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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Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography

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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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