Skip to main content
Apply Visit Give
Headshot image

Jacob Ross

Dr Stephen Ross

  • Associate Professor, English

Research areas: Poetry and poetics, modernism, comparative literature

Contact information

Email:

stephen.ross@concordia.ca

Websites:

Invisible Terrain (Oxford UP)
Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology (Bloomsbury)

CV:

View Stephen Ross's CV

Biography

I am associate professor in the Department of English and was co-editor of the peer-review journal Modernism/modernity from 2021-25. 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, 2020), which won the Modernist Studies Association's 2021 book prize for Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection. This 500-page anthology gathers programmatic statements by modernist artists that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism in its various global formations. With Ariel Resnikoff 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).

My current research is coalescing into a book project on late modernist poetics and state power. Poets whom I've written about for this project, or plan to write about, include Nathaniel Mackey, Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, and Aimé Césaire. Here is a link to a talk I gave on Celan and Mandelstam at the "Untimely Imagination" conference in Zagreb, June 2023.

Here is a link to a recent peer-reviewed article on the poet CA Conrad: "Poetic Dianoia: Epistemic Injustice and CA Conrad's (Soma)tics"

I am available to supervise graduate work at the MA and PhD levels in the fields of poetry/poetics, modernism, and 20th/21st century literature and would be delighted to hear from you if you'd be interested in exploring this possibility.



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 2026
ENGL 237 - Tragedy
ENGL 633 - The New American Poetry

Fall 2025
ENGL 447 - Literature and Psychoanalysis

Winter 2025
ENGL 627 - Late Modernist Poetry and WWII

Fall 2024
ENGL 398- Afrofuturism

Summer 2024
ENGL 234 - Poetry

Winter 2024
ENGL 394 - Contemporary Critical Theory

Fall 2023
ENGL 262 - British Literature 1660-1900
ENGL 603/801 - Poet's Prose

Fall 2022
LBCL 490 - Twentieth Century: Forms, Themes, Critiques

Summer 2022
ENGL 602 - Dante and Modern Literature

Winter 2022
ENGL 394 - Contemporary Critical Theory
ENGL 470 - New American Poetry 

Fall 2021
ENGL 604 - Global Modernist Poetics: Caribbean, Ashkenazi Jewish Diaspora, Arab World

Winter 2021
ENGL 262 - British Literature 1660-1900

Fall/Winter 2020-21
ENGL 340 - Modernism

Fall 2020
ENGL 628 - The New American Poetry 

Winter 2020
ENGL 367 - American Poetry
ENGL 628 - Global Modernism 

Fall 2019
ENGL 338 - Modern British Literature
ENGL 365 - American Literature, 1950 - present

Winter 2019
ENGL 394 - Contemporary Critical Theory
ENGL 470 - Afrofuturism

Fall 2018
ENGL 349 - Modern Poetry
ENGL 626 - Afrofuturism

Winter 2018
ENGL 341 - Modern Fiction
ENGL 386 - Caribbean Literature

Fall 2017
ENGL 628 - Global Britain 

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)





Publications

Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP)

Link

Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury)

Link

Took 112 milliseconds
 
Back to top

© Concordia University