Kristin Ross

Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1981.

Her research interests include French literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, Francophone Caribbean literature, urban history and revolutionary history. She is proficient in the French language and is the translator of several works, including an English version of Jacques Ranciere's "The Ignorant Schoolmaster".

Professor Ross has written a number of books, including "The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune" (1988), "Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture" (1995) and "May '68 and its Afterlives" (2002). She co-authored "Anti-Americanism" (2004) with Andrew Ross.

For "Fast Cars, Clean Bodies", she was awarded a Critic's Choice Award and the Lawrence Wylie Award for French Cultural Studies. Professor Ross has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

External links

"By Kristin Ross"
* [http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2191&editorial_id=11226 "Closing Time"] Obituary of Norman Brown in the journal Radical Philosophy.
* [http://web.grinnell.edu/sandb/archives/volume_121/number_2/news/article06.html "Q&A: Visiting Distinguished Professor in Humanities Kristin Ross discusses detective novels, feminism and the French response to Iraq"] - Interview with Kristin Ross at Grinell University(September 10, 2004)
* [http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/colloquium/Ross.pdf "Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism] Article to be published in a forthcoming book, (2005).

"About Kristin Ross"
* [http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/pdf/review119.pdf "Red and black"] A review of "May '68 and its Afterlives" in "Radical Philosophy", (May/June 2003).
* [http://www.bookforum.com/archive/dec_04/anderson.html "Sam's Club"] A review of a book edited by Kristin Ross, "Anti-Americanism", in "BOOKFORUM", (dec/jan 2005).