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. [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]

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References

  1. ↑ "WOUDHUYSEN, Prof. Henry Ruxton". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  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.


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