Professor Anthony Cross FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1989
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2004. Previously, Reader in Russian at the University of East Anglia and Roberts Professor of Russian at the University of Leeds. DLitt (East Anglia) and LittD (Cambridge) and Honorary Doctorate from the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) in 2010. Internationally known for his work on eighteenth-century Russia and Anglo-Russian cultural relations. Founded the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia in 1968 and edited the Group's annual Newsletter from 1973 to 2009. Reviews Editor of the Journal of European Studies since its inception in 1971.
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
2004 -
University of Cambridge Professor of Slavonic Studies
1985 -
University of Cambridge Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
1985 - 2004
University of Leeds Roberts Professor of Russian
1981 - 1985
University of East Anglia Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Russian
1964 - 1972
University of East Anglia Readership
Publications
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History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions
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The Holy Roman Empire in its European context from the fifteenth century to 1806; the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire in German-speaking central Europe from 1806 to the present
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