Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013.
in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969.
In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University[1] for a dissertation which was an edition of Ælfric's Second Series of Catholic Homilies under the supervision of Professor P. A. M. Clemoes.
Godden was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2009.
[2] He delivered the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.