David Willis | |
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Born | 1900 ![]() |
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Position held | Jesus Professor of Celtic (2020–) ![]() |
David W. E. Willis, FBA is a linguist and Celticist. In 2020 he took up the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford.[1] He had previously held posts in historical linguistics at the University of Manchester[2] and at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Selwyn College.[3]
In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]