Henry Woudhuysen

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Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, FSA , FBA (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature. [1] He is the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, having been appointed in 2012. [2] [3] He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London. [4]

Woudhuysen was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and gained a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1981. His thesis title was Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578–1582 and his supervisor was Katherine Duncan-Jones. [5]

In 2010, Woudhuysen was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [6] Between 1995 and 2020 Woudhuysen served as a general editor for the third series of the Arden Shakespeare. [7]

The Oxford Companion to the Book which he edited with Michael F. Suarez was published in 2010. [8]

The Book: A Global History by Woudhuysen and Michael F.Suarez [9] was published in 2013. [10]

In 2023 he gave the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library.

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  2. ↑ "New Rector of Lincoln College appointed". University of Oxford. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Professor Henry Woudhuysen". britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Stokes, Matt (31 May 2012). "New Lincoln rector". Oxford Student. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Woudhuysen, H. R. (1981). Leicester's literary patronage. Oxford Research Archive (Thesis). Dphil. University of Oxford.
  6. ↑ "Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "Arden Shakespeare: Third Series". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  8. ↑ Baker, William. “The Passion for the Book and Bibliography." Suarez, Michael F., S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, Eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2 Vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.1: Lxvi+653 Pp.; 2: Xi+654-1327 Pp. Illus. Cloth, Slipcase. $220 or £175. ( ISBN 978-0-19-860653-6).” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2011: 407-413.
  9. ↑ Suarez, Michael Felix, H. R Woudhuysen, and Oxford University Press. The Book: A Global History. Oxford: University Press, 2013.
  10. ↑ Supple, Shannon K. “The Book: A Global History.” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Chicago: American Library Association, 2015.


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