Richard Cross

Emeritus Professor, English

rcross@umd.edu

American
Modernist
Post-1900 British and Irish

Richard Cross taught at Dartmouth and UCLA before coming to Maryland, in 1983, to chair the English Department. He has served as visiting professor at the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen, Freiburg, Mannheim, and Tübingen. His publications include Flaubert and Joyce: The Rite of Fiction (Princeton) and Malcolm Lowry: A Preface to His Fiction (Chicago) as well as articles on Melville, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Edwin Muir, Faulkner, Lowry, Bellow, Richard Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Flannery O'Connor, Ted Hughes, D. M. Thomas, and W. G. Sebald, translations from the German (with Christa Wolf Cross), short fiction, personal essays, and many book reviews and review essays.

Dates: Saturday, December 1, 2001 - 12:00

This study of Lowry's fiction attempts to show a continuity in his work and that Under the Volcano cannot be seen as an unrelated success

Dates: Sunday, July 1, 2001 - 12:00

Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme, and technique in their major writings. Juxtaposing passages from their novels, he reveals through textual analysis certain structural and thematic patterns.

Dates: Monday, January 1, 1979 - 12:00

The book attempts to show a continuity in his work and that Under the Volcano cannot be seen as an unrelated success.

Dates: Friday, January 1, 1971 - 12:00

Juxtaposing passages from their novels, he reveals through textual analysis certain structural and thematic patterns.

Richard Cross

Research Expertise

Publications

Malcolm Lowry: A Preface to His Fiction

This study of Lowry's fiction attempts to show a continuity in his work and that Under the Volcano cannot be seen as an unrelated success

Flaubert and Joyce: The Rite of Fiction

Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme, and technique in their major writings.

Malcolm Lowry: A Preface to His Fiction

This study of Lowry's fiction.

Flaubert and Joyce: The Rite of Fiction

Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme, and technique in their major writings.