Henry Woudhuysen
British bibliographer and academic
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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]
24 October 1954
Henry Woudhuysen | |
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Woudhuysen in 2023 | |
| Born | Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen 24 October 1954 |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Spouse | Deborah Loudon |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578–1582 (1981) |
| Katherine Duncan-Jones | |
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| 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 studied for MA and DPhil degrees at Pembroke College, Oxford.[1] His doctoral 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.
Personal life
Woudhuysen is married to Deborah Loudon, a former HR director in the Home Office.[13] Their son George is a historian of the Roman Empire at the University of Nottingham.[14]
Bibliography
- The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509–1659 (editor; London: Penguin Books, 1992) ISBN 0713990163
- Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) ISBN 0198129661
- The Oxford Companion to the Book (co-editor with Michael F. Suarez; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 9780198606536
- The Book: A Global History (co-editor with Michael F. Suarez; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) ISBN 9780199679416
- Essays to Mark the Centenary of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1922–2022 (co-editor with David Rundle; Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2024) ISBN 9780901420657
