Professor Ceri Crossley is Professor of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. In October 2002 Professor Crossley was awarded the title of Docteur Honoris Causa by the Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, as recognition for his work in the field of nineteenth-century French Studies. His research focuses on the history of ideas and extends over a number of areas: French Romantic religious and social thought, historiography, literature and the history of science and medicine. He has published books, editions, and over sixty scholarly essays and articles. He was adviser for the period 1789-1870 for The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, ed. Peter France (1995). He is currently completing a study of attitudes towards animals and vegetarianism in France between 1789 and 1914. He works in collaboration with research groups in France: CRR (Clermont-Ferrand), LAPRIL (Bordeaux). He is corresponding member for the UK for the Société des études romantiqiues et dix-neuviémistes.

Within the Department of French Studies Ceri Crossley teaches on a range of undergraduate courses (literary, cultural, language-based) and also supervises work at postgraduate level. In the past he has fulfilled a number of administrative functions including those of Head of Department and Deputy Head of School. He is currently Departmental Welfare Tutor.

Publications

Self-authored books

• Edgar Quinet (1803-75). A Study in Romantic Thought, French Forum, 1983, 149 pp.
• Alfred de Musset ‘Lorenzaccio’, Grant and Cutler, 1983, 77 pp
• French Historians and Romanticism: Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet, Routledge, 1993, 287 pp.

Editions

• Edgar Quinet, Ahasvérus, Slatkine, 1982. Introduction, pp. 1-15
• Edition (with S Bernard-Griffiths) of the Michelet-Quinet letters contained within L Le Guillou, ed., Correspondance générale de Jules Michelet, Champion, 1994-2001, 12 vols

Edited books

• Constant in Britain, edited book (with Dennis Wood), Institut Benjamin Constant, 1987
• Studies in Anglo-French Cultural Relations: Imagining France, edited book (with Ian Small), Macmillan, 1988
• The French Revolution and British Culture, edited book (with Ian Small), Oxford University Press, 1989
• Problems in French History, edited book (with Martyn Cornick), Palgrave, 2000

Articles in refereed journals

• ‘La Renaissance Orientale: Edgar Quinet and the Far East’, Dalhousie French Studies, pp. 131-44 (1998)
• ‘History, Nature and National Identity in France, 1800-30’ Literature and History, pp. 18-27 (2001)
• ‘A propos de l’animal chez Michelet’, Cahiers romantiques, pp. 35-49 (2001)

Essays in books

• ‘Le paysage dans Ahasvérus d’Edgar Quinet’ in Paysages romantiques, ed. G Peylet, Université Bordeaux 3, 2000, pp. 405-17
• ‘Histoire et épopée romantique: le cas d’Ahasvérus d’Edgar Quinet’ in Poésie et poétique en France 1830-1890, ed. P Edwards, Peter Lang, 2001, pp. 41-54
• "‘Le Tort de la politique c’est d’être masculine’: à propos de La Mère d’Eugène Pelletan", in L’âge d’or des républicains, ed. P Baquiast, L’Harmattan, 2001, pp. 159-79