| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Henry Woudhuysen | |
| Birth Name: | Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen |
| Birth Date: | 1954 10, df=y |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Historian and academic |
| Education: | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Thesis Title: | Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578-1582 |
| Thesis Year: | 1981 |
| Doctoral Supervisor: | Katherine Duncan-Jones |
| Workplaces: | Lincoln College, Oxford University College London |
| Notable Works: | The Oxford Companion to the Book The Arden Shakespeare |
Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (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]
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.[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.