Sentence:  Indeed , it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History , who fathered this most peculiar view , and in the brilliant <WSD>Professor</WSD> of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge , who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university