British academic
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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