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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor Paul Julian Smith FBA

Spanish and Latin American cinema, television, and visual culture; literature in Spanish from the Renaissance to the present

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Professor Clair Wills FBA

20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration

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