Henry Woudhuysen Explained

Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (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.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: WOUDHUYSEN, Prof. Henry Ruxton. Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. 25 November 2016. November 2015.
2. Web site: New Rector of Lincoln College appointed . University of Oxford . 25 April 2014 . 18 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214652/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120718.html . 26 April 2014 .
3. Web site: Professor Henry Woudhuysen. britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. 25 November 2016. 2016.
4. News: Stokes. Matt. New Lincoln rector. 25 April 2014. Oxford Student. 31 May 2012.
5. Leicester's literary patronage. Dphil. University of Oxford. Oxford Research Archive. 1981. Woudhuysen . H. R. .
6. Web site: Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA . The British Academy . 18 October 2022 . en.
7. Web site: Arden Shakespeare: Third Series . Bloomsbury . 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.