Henry Woudhuysen

Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature. He is the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, having been appointed in 2012. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.

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.

In 2010, Woudhuysen was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Between 1995 and 2020 Woudhuysen served as a general editor for the third series of the Arden Shakespeare.

The Oxford Companion to the Book which he edited with Michael F. Suarez was published in 2010.

The Book: A Global History by Woudhuysen and Michael F.Suarez was published in 2013.

In 2023 he gave the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library.