Gordon Campbell#
| Membership Number: | 5029 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://le.ac.uk/people/gordon-campbell |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester
- 2012 - 2017 Lead Historian, Museum of the Bible, Washington DC
- 1979 - 2010 Lecturer, Reader, and (from 1994) Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester
- 1974 - 1979 Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool
- 1973 - 1974 Lecturer in English, Aarhus University
Fields of Scholarship
- Legal history
- Historical theology
- Encyclopedias and reference books
- Classical antiquity
- Scholarly editing
- Literature, especially John Milton
- Architecture
- Garden history
- Art History
- Renaissance studies
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Honorary D.Litt, University of Leicester
- 2015 Festschrift (essays on manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts, edited by Edward Jones)
- 2015 Honorary Fellow, English Association
- 2012 Fellow, Linnean Society
- 2012 Longman--History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to History)
- 2011 Fellow, British Academy
- 2008 Fellow, Society of Antiquaries
- 2006 Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society
- 2005 Honored Scholar, Milton Society of America
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bucharest
- 1998 Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
- 1992 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- 1988 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
