Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

Elected 1991

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth: 1934
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 1991
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

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Formerly Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Balliol College, University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Publications

Dr Charles Burney: a literary biography (1965)

The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969)

New Oxford book of 18th century verse (1984)

18th century women poets (1989)

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (2006)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

The medieval & Renaissance literature & history of Spain from 1200 to 1700, with special interests in literacy, libraries & the history of ideas; humanism; imperialism

Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.

Professor Neil Kenny FBA

Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.

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Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

Last post

Formerly Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Balliol College, University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Publications

Dr Charles Burney: a literary biography (1965)

The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969)

New Oxford book of 18th century verse (1984)

18th century women poets (1989)

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (2006)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Professor Neil Kenny FBA

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Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

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Formerly Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Balliol College, University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Publications

Dr Charles Burney: a literary biography (1965)

The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969)

New Oxford book of 18th century verse (1984)

18th century women poets (1989)

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (2006)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Professor Neil Kenny FBA

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