Anthony Cross (literary scholar)
Anthony Glenn Cross, FBA 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.Early life and education
Born in 1936, Cross was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1960; he then spent a year at Harvard University, where he completed the AM degree in 1961, before returning to Trinity Hall to carry out doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1966.Career
Cross had been appointed to a lectureship in Russian at the University of East Anglia in 1964 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1969 and reader in 1972. He moved to the University of Leeds in 1981 to take up the Roberts Professorship in Russian, and spent four years there before he moved to the University of Cambridge in 1985 to be Professor of Slavonic Studies and a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, retiring in 2004.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. Cross has been awarded higher doctorates from the University of East Anglia and the University of Cambridge.Selected publications
Cross has published 25 books, including:
- N. M. Karamzin: A Study of His Literary Career 1783–1801.
- By the Banks of the Thames: Russians in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
- The Russian Theme in English Literature from the Sixteenth Century to 1980.
- Anglo-Russica: Aspects of Anglo-Russian Relations in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
- By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia.
- Peter the Great through British Eyes.
