Anthony Cross (literary scholar)

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Anthony Glenn Cross, FBA (born 1936) is a retired British academic and scholar of modern Russian history. He was Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge between 1985 and 2004.

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Early life and education

Cross was born in 1936 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1960. He then spent a year at Harvard University, where he completed the AM degree, before returning to Trinity Hall to carry out doctoral studies. His PhD was awarded in 1966. [1]

Academic career

Cross became a Lecturer in Russian at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 1964, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1969 and Reader in 1972. In 1981 he was appointed Roberts Professor of Russian at the University of Leeds. Four years later he moved back to Cambridge as Professor of Slavonic Studies and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He retired in 2004. [1] [2] [3]

Cross was instrumental in continuing the Russian summer vacation courses that had begun in Cambridge in the 1950s as an offshoot of the Joint Services Schools for Linguists Russian courses. From 1964 onwards he organized a similar course at UEA (the Intensive Russian Vacation Course - IRVC) for three weeks in July-August each year which enjoyed great success, attracting large numbers of students from all over the world. Over the years, however, demand for Russian declined. The course continued after his retirement under Larissa Wymer until 2011, when it was discontinued. [4]

Honours and awards

In 1989, Cross was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [2]

Cross was awarded the degree of Litt D by the University of East Anglia in 1981 and a doctorate by the University of Cambridge in 1997. [1]

Selected publications

Cross has published 25 books, including: [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cross, Prof. Anthony Glenn", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Anthony Cross", The British Academy . Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Anthony Cross", Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  4. The History of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Michael Sanderson, Hambledon Continuum, 2003.