Ph.D. 1981, Yale; M.A. 1977, B.A. 1975, U.C. Santa Cruz

Kristin Ross
Professor of Comparative Literature
French literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; Francophone Caribbean literature; urban history, theory, and politics; literature, culture, and ideology; popular culture; History and Literature
Modern Language Association; Editorial Board, French Cultural Studies; Paralax; Sites: Journal of 20th Century and Contemporary French Studies.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999; Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 1999.
Select Publications
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune. Verso, 2015. French edition, La Fabrique, 2015.
May '68 and Its Afterlives. Chicago. 2002. French translation, Le Monde Diplomatique/Complexe,
2005. Re-edition Editions Agone 2011.
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT Press. 1995.
French translation, re-edition, Flammarion, 2006.
The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. University of Minnesota Press. 1988.
French translation, Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2012.
Everyday Life, co-ed., Yale French Studies, no. 73. Fall 1987.
Kristin Ross
Professor of Comparative Literature kr1@nyu.edu 19 University Place, 3 Fl New York, New York (US) 10003Phone: (212) 998-8782