Professor Tim Woods
Dean of Arts
BA, MA, PhD
Contact
Email: tww@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622532
Biography
The son of a diamond physicist and an artist-designer, Professor Tim Woods emigrated to the UK from South Africa in the late 1970s with his parents and two brothers. After completing his BA, MA and PhD degrees in English Literature at the universities of Bristol and Southampton, and a brief spell as a temporary lecturer at the University of Winchester, he was first appointed Lecturer in English Literature and American Studies at Aberystwyth University in 1990. He was subsequently awarded a personal chair in 2003 and appointed Head of the Department of English and Creative Writing between 2002-2007. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 2007. Since his appointment to Aberystwyth University, he has sat on various University committees, undertaken numerous external institutional audit reviews, and acted as a Peer Assessor for the AHRC and a panel member for the 2008 RAE.