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  1. I am the General Editor of the OUP Writings and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, projected to be published in 26 volumes. I am also the General Editor of the 'Thomas Hollis Library', published by Liberty Fund of Indianapolis.

    • Teaching
    • Biography and Research
    • Graduate Supervision

    I lecture widely across the period 1509-1832: recent courses include Shakespearean Tragedy, Swift, Defoe, Four Types of Gothic, English Literature and the French Revolution, and The Dunciad and its Enemies. I do not give undergraduate tutorials.

    I read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and was a Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. I then taught at the University of Leeds before becoming a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford. In 2002 I was elected to the Warton chair. In 2009 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. My doctoral research was on the historian Edwar...

    I am happy to consider doctoral students whose topics fall within the long eighteenth century. Students whom I have recently supervised have worked on the English deists, economics and eighteenth-century poetry, and satire and science in the long eighteenth century.

  2. David Womersley is known for Frozen (2013), Chicken Little (2005) and Frozen II (2019).

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  3. Professorial Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford. www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk. Editor, The Review of English Studies. http://res.oxfordjournals.org. Member of the English Faculty,

  4. Professor Womersley's interests lie in English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; and the theory and practice of textual editing.

  5. Professor David Womersley FBA. English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing Elected 2009

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  7. Professor David Womersley Gulliver's Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift's account of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in the fantastical societies of 'remote nations' was an instant best-seller on publication in 1726 and has remained in the public imagination ever since ...