Professor Ceri Crossley

• BA, PhD (Wales)
• Docteur Honoris Causa, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques

I was an undergraduate and a postgraduate at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. At Birmingham I served on many University Committees and was also Head of the Department of French Studies and Deputy Head of the School of Modern Languages. I was also Welfare Tutor for the Department of French. I also acted as external examiner for French at a number of British Universities. My duties at Birmingham included the full range of undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision.

My research centres on Nineteenth-Century French literature and intellectual history and includes both major and minor figures. I have written extensively on Edgar Quinet (1803-75). Research interests include Anglo-French literary relations, French anti-Semitism, evolutionism, vegetarianism, socialism, occultism.