Henry Woudhuysen

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]

Professor Henry Woudhuysen FSA FBA
Born	Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen (1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 70)
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Academic background
Education	St Paul's School, London
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578-1582 (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Katherine Duncan-Jones
Academic work
Discipline	English studies History
Sub-discipline	History of the book English Renaissance theatre Political history Literary history Palaeography
Institutions	Lincoln College, Oxford University College London
Notable works	The Oxford Companion to the Book The Arden Shakespeare

Biography

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

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.

External links

• Lincoln College biography
• Full text of his doctoral thesis via Oxford Research Archive