Acting President – About Dr. Andrew Thompson
Dr. Andrew Thompson is the Acting President at The American University of Rome where he also holds a faculty position in English Literature. Prior to taking up this post he was Associate Provost for Assessment, Teaching and Learning at AUR, and supported the University’s successful bid to achieve U.S. regional accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Andrew joined AUR in 2007 from the University of Wales, Newport in the United Kingdom where he held positions as Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching in the School of Education and a faculty position in English Literature. He had previously spent ten years in Italy teaching English Literature, Language and Translation in the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne at the University of Genoa. He gained experience in outcomes assessment and institutional research within the British university system, where he led and coordinated quality assurance and enhancement across the Schools of Education and Humanities and Science at Newport for many years, and played a full part in strategic planning, resource allocation and institutional renewal at school and university level.
Andrews first degree is in English Literature (Cambridge University), and he holds an MA in Linguistics (University of Surrey) and a PhD in English Literature (University of Cardiff ). Andrew’s academic work focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in English. His published works include a monograph, George Eliot and Italy: literary, cultural and political influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, an edition of the previously unpublished George Eliot “Romola” holograph notebook held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and several articles on nineteenth-century English literature.
