Anna Crone

Anna Lisa Crone (June 9, 1946 – June 19, 2009 ) was an American linguist and literary theorist.

Life Bom in Brooklyn, New York, Crone was raised in North Carolina and graduated from Goucher College in 1967. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975, where her teachers were Roman Jakobson, , and . with their views being sometimes misinterpreted by Crone.

During her career she directed almost 20 dissertations. In 2007, two of her students published Poetics, Self, Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone. She died from cancer and was survived by her husband Vladimir Donchik, her daughter Liliana, her parents Ethel and James Crone, and sisters Laurel Sneed and Moira Crone.

Awards and honors 1985: a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the university 2000: Award for Achievement in Post-Secondary Teaching (the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) 2000: a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (University of Chicago)