Professor Gerald Smith FBA

Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures Eastern Europe including Russia
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2001
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Summary

I continue to work on contemporary Russian poetry, in particular translating Lev Loseff (1937-2009), and on the life and works of the critic D.S.Mirsky (1890-1939).

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford

Past appointments

New College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford

2003 -

University of Oxford Professor of Russian

1986 -

University of Oxford Professor of Emeritus Russian , University of Oxford, and Fellow of New College, Oxford

1986 - 2003

University of Birmingham Lecturer in Russian

1971 - 1978

University of Nottingham Lecturer in Russian

1964 - 1971

Publications

Letters from D.S.Mirsky and Helen Iswolsky to Marguerite Caetani 2015

Songs to seven strings 1984

D S Mirsky. A Russian-English life, 1890-1939 2000

Vzglyad izvne: stat'i o russkoi poezii i poetike 2002

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Professor Jonathan Culler FBA

Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century

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Professor Hilary Owen FBA

The literatures, cultures and cinema of Portugal and Lusophone Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries; feminist theory and gender studies; women's writing and filmmaking; postcolonial theory

Hilary Owen FBA

Professor Edna Longley FBA

English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales

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