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
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

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 Angela McRobbie FBA

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Professor Peter France FBA

French Language and Literature

Professor Simon Frith FBA

The sociology of music; popular music history, music policy & the analysis of music business & culture

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