Ritchie Robertson

Ritchie Robertson was born in Nairn, Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh University and Oxford University. He held posts at Lincoln College, Oxford (1979-84) and Downing College, Cambridge (1984-89) before being appointed to his present post as Fellow and Tutor in German at St John's College, Oxford, in 1989. He is co-editor of the yearbook Austrian Studies (1990-99), and has been Germanic editor of the Modern Language Review since 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.