Dr Stephen Ross
Assistant Professor, English
| Office: |
S-LB 668-05 J.W. McConnell Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve W. |
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 4674 |
| Email: | stephen.ross@concordia.ca |
| Website(s): |
Invisible Terrain (OUP) by Stephen Ross |
As a comparatist scholar of modern and contemporary literature, my current research itinerary divides into two broad areas: 1) modernist poetry/poetics and its contemporary legacies; 2) the “global” turn in modernist studies. My first monograph, Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017), examines the poetry of John Ashbery in relation to the avant-garde fantasy that nature can become art. I am also co-editor with Dr. Alys Moody of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2019), a 210K-word anthology of programmatic statements by modernist artists that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism in its various global formations. With Ariel Resnikoff (University of Pennsylvania) I am working toward the first complete translation and critical edition of Processions, the long-poem masterpiece of Yiddish American modernist Mikhl Likht (1893-1953).
Education and training
Ph.D. University of Oxford (2013)
M.St. University of Oxford (2009)
B.A. UNC Chapel Hill (2007)
Teaching activities
Concordia Teaching:
Winter 2019
ENGL 394 - Contemporary Critical Theory
ENGL 470 - Afrofuturism
Fall 2018
ENGL 349 - Modern Poetry
ENGL 626 - Afrofuturism (graduate)
Winter 2018
ENGL 341 - Modern Fiction
ENGL 386 - Caribbean Literature
Fall 2017
ENGL 628 - Global Britain (graduate)
Winter 2017
ENGL 345 - Modern Drama
ENGL 340 - Modernism II (yearlong)
ENGL 394 - Contemporary Critical Theory
Fall 2016
ENGL 262 - British Literature 1660-1900
ENGL 246 - Science Fiction
ENGL 340 - Modernism I (yearlong)
