Anne Hudson (literary historian)
Professor Anne Hudson FBA FRHistS | |
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Born | Anne Mary Hudson 28 August 1938 |
Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Education | Dartford Grammar School for Girls |
Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English Literature |
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Institutions | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University of Oxford |
Anne Mary Hudson, FBA, FRHistS (born 28 August 1938) is a British retired literary historian and academic. She was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1963 to 2003, and Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2003.
Early life and education[]
Hudson was born on 28 August 1938. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, an all-girls state grammar school in Dartford, Kent. She studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree. She also undertook postgraduate research at Oxford, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1964.[1]
Academic career[]
From 1961 to 1963, Hudson was a college lecturer in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 1963, she was elected a Fellow of LMH and appointed a Tutor in English. She also held positions in the Faculty of English Language and Literature of University of Oxford: she was a CUF lecturer from 1963 to 1981, a special lecturer from 1981 to 1983, held a British Academy Readership in the Humanities from 1983 to 1986, was a lecturer in Medieval English from 1986 to 1989, before being appointed Professor of Medieval English in 1989.[1] She retired from full-time academia in 2003, and was made an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.[1][2]
In addition to her university posts, she has held a number of senior appointments at the Early English Text Society: she served as executive secretary from 1969 to 1982 and its director from 2006 to 2013; she has been a member of its council since 1982.[1]
Honours[]
In 1976, Hudson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[1][3] She has twice been awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy; in 1985 and in 1991.[4] In 1988, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[1][5]
A Festschrift was published in 2005 in honour of Hudson. It was titled Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson and was edited by Helen Barr and .[6]
Selected works[]
- Hudson, Anne, ed. (1978). Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hudson, Anne (1988). The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822762-5.
- Hudson, Anne, ed. (1993). Two Wycliffite Texts: The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, the Testimony of William Thorpe 1407. Oxford: Early English Text Society. ISBN 978-0-19-722303-1.
- Biller, Peter; Hudson, Anne, eds. (1996). Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57576-8.
- Hudson, Anne (2003). Lollards and their Books. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-907628-60-6.
- Hudson, Anne (2008). Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5964-8.
- Hudson, Anne (2015). Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78138-131-1.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f 'HUDSON, Prof. Anne Mary', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 22 Nov 2017
- ^ "Honorary and Emeritus Fellows". Lady Margaret Hall. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Fellows – H" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. May 2016. Archived from the original (pdf) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ MEMORIAL PRIZE" (pdf). British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Professor Anne Hudson". British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ Barr, Helen; Hutchison, Ann M., eds. (2005). Text and controversy from Wyclif to Bale : essays in honour of Anne Hudson. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2503522098.
- 1938 births
- Living people
- British literary historians
- British medievalists
- Women medievalists
- Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford
- Historians of the University of Oxford
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Fellows of the British Academy
- People educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls
- Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
- Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- Women literary historians
- British women historians