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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English literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, especially Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson; post-medieval palaeography; bibliography and the history of the book
Professor Virginia Cox FBA
Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing
Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA
History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries
