Dr Stephen Ross
Assistant Professor, English
Jacob Ross
| Office: |
S-LB 668-05 J.W. McConnell Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. |
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 4674 |
| Email: | stephen.ross@concordia.ca |
| Website(s): |
Invisible Terrain (Oxford UP) Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology (Bloomsbury) |
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).
From April 29 to May 5 I will be an International Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study.
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 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 (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)
