Brian Vickers (literary Scholar)

Brian Vickers (literary Scholar)

Sir Brian Vickers, FBA (born 1937) is a British academic, now Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He is known for his work on the history of rhetoric, Shakespeare, John Ford, and Francis Bacon. He joined the English Department at University College, London as a visiting professor in 2012.

He was born in Cardiff, educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School, London and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1962 with a Double First in English, winning both the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship and the Harness Shakespeare Essay Prize. He was awarded a Cambridge doctorate in 1967, and taught there until 1972. In that year he became Professor Ordinarius at ETH.

He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1998 (Corresponding, Ordinary Fellow from 2003) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London since 2004. He was knighted for services to literary scholarship in the New Year Honours of 2008. He is the General Editor of an old-spelling edition of the Complete Works of John Ford, to be published by Oxford University Press.