Emeritus Professor David Robey
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I was educated at Winchester College and graduated from Oxford in Modern Languages in 1966. After brief spells as lecturer at Lake Forest College, Illinois, and the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø, from 1968 I was appointed a University Lecturer in Italian at Oxford. I left in 1989, to be Professor of Italian at Manchester University, where I also became Dean of the Arts Faculty.
In 1998 I moved back to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø as Professor of Italian, and was Head of the Department of Italian, then Head of the School of Modern Languages, then its Research Director. From 2003 to 2008 I was Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme.
I retired from ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø in 2008, and am currently part-time Arts and Humanities Consultant at the Oxford e-Research Centre.