Kristin Ross
Kristin Ross (born 1953 ) is an American romance scholar .
Life
Kristin Ross studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz , where she received a BA (1975) and an MA (1977). She received her PhD from Yale University in 1981. She is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University .
Ross was a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey .
She placed her study of the historical aftermath of the Paris Commune (2015) under the slogan of the commune des luxe communal .
Her books have also been translated into French.
Fonts (selection)
- Communal luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune . London: Verso, 2015
- Sell democracy , from the English by Frank Born. In: Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Wendy Brown, Daniel Bensaïd, Kristin Ross: Democracy? : A debate . Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2012, pp. 96–115
- with Andrew Ross (Ed.): Anti-Americanism . New York: New York University Press, 2004
- May '68 and its afterlives . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
- Fast cars, clean bodies: decolonization and the reordering of French culture . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995
- Jacques Rancière : The ignorant schoolmaster: five lessons in intellectual emancipation . Translation from the French Kristin Ross. Stanford, California: Stanford Univ. Press, 1991
- The emergence of social space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune . Foreword by Terry Eagleton . Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1988
- with Alice Yaeger Kaplan (ed.): Everyday life . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987
- Fascination and storytelling: Prevost, Proust, and Blanchot . Dissertation, Yale University 1981
Web links
- Literature by and about Kristin Ross in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Manu Goswami (NYU): The Meaning of the Paris Commune , Interview, at jacobinmag, May 4, 2015
- Luxe communal. The Imaginaire of the Commune , blog post at Der Freitag
Individual evidence
- ^ Kristin Ross , at New York University
- ^ Kristin Ross: L'Imaginaire de la Commune . Translated from English by Étienne Dobenesque. Paris: La fabrique éditions, 2015 review , at: lavoiedujaguar
- ↑ Harry Stopes: Back to the barricades , review, in: Financial Times , May 2, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ross, Kristin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |