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Professor
Henry Woudhuysen
FSA FBA
Born
Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen

(1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 70)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
Academic background
EducationSt Paul's School, London
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisLeicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578-1582 (1981)
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsLincoln College, Oxford
University College London
Notable worksThe Oxford Companion to the Book
The Arden Shakespeare

Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, FSA, FBA (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature.[1] He was the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford from 2012 to 2024.[2][3][4] He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.[5]

Biography

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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.[6] His first academic role was at Lincoln College as a Junior Research Fellow in English Literature in 1978 before he joined University College London.[7]

In 2010, Woudhuysen was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[8] Between 1995 and 2020 Woudhuysen served as a general editor for the third series of the Arden Shakespeare.[9]

The Oxford Companion to the Book which he edited with Michael F. Suarez was published in 2010.[10]

The Book: A Global History by Woudhuysen and Michael F.Suarez [11] was published in 2013.[12]

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

References

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  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. ^ "A Farewell Message from our 39th Rector, Professor Henry Woudhuysen". Lincoln College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  5. ^ Stokes, Matt (31 May 2012). "New Lincoln rector". Oxford Student. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  6. ^ Woudhuysen, H. R. (1981). Leicester's literary patronage. Oxford Research Archive (Thesis). Dphil. University of Oxford.
  7. ^ "A Farewell Message from our 39th Rector, Professor Henry Woudhuysen". Lincoln College, Oxford. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Arden Shakespeare: Third Series". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Suarez, Michael Felix, H. R Woudhuysen, and Oxford University Press. The Book: A Global History. Oxford: University Press, 2013.
  12. ^ 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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