Kristin Ross is a professor

Professor

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 of comparative literature

Comparative literature

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 at New York University

New York University

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. She is primarily known for her work on French literature

French literature

French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...

 and culture

Culture of France

The culture of France and of the French people has been shaped by geography, by profound historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culture and of decorative arts since the seventeenth...

 of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life and work

Ross received her Ph.D.

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 from Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1981 and since then has written a number of books, including The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune

Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution...

(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 (no relation).

For Fast Cars, Clean Bodies, Ross was awarded a Critic's Choice Award and the Lawrence Wylie Award for French Cultural Studies. Professor Ross has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 and a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton, New Jersey

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.

Ross has also translated several works from French including Jacques Ranciere

Jacques Rancière

Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...

's The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Along with her research interests in French culture and literature, Ross's work gains its focus through her interest in urban and revolutionary history, theory, politics, ideology and popular culture.

External links

By Kristin Ross

• "Closing Time" Obituary of Norman Brown in the journal Radical Philosophy
  Radical Philosophy
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• "Q&A: Visiting Distinguished Professor in Humanities Kristin Ross discusses detective novels, feminism and the French response to Iraq" - Interview with Kristin Ross at Grinnell College (September 10, 2004)
• "Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism Article to be published in a forthcoming book, (2005).

About Kristin Ross

• "Red and black" A review of May '68 and its Afterlives in Radical Philosophy
  Radical Philosophy
  Radical Philosophy is a British academic journal of critical theory and continental philosophy, appearing six times a year. It was established in 1972 with the purpose of providing a forum for the theoretical work which was emerging in the wake of the radical movements of the 1960s, in philosophy...
  
  , (May/June 2003).
• "Sam's Club" A review of a book edited by Kristin Ross, Anti-Americanism, in BOOKFORUM
  Bookforum
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  , (dec/jan 2005)