Stephen Ross’s research interests range over the fields of modernism and literary or critical theory. He has in the past published research on individual modernist authors, modernism at large, and the field of modernist studies. In all his work, he tries to work through how theory can help us understand cultural production, and – importantly – vice versa. He is at present keenly interested in how modernism emerged as a distinctly euro-anglo-american phenomenon, and how it is again being exported as the field of modernist studies expands to include works and artists hitherto known as postcolonial. Above all, he is interested in the kind of work accomplished when cultural phenomena find their way into art works in figurative forms: when tropes or the rhetoric of a given phenomenon comes to dominate a given artistic discourse (e.g., spiritualist rhetoric in modernist novels, or tropes of the internet in contemporary cinema).
Research Interests: Modernism, The Novel, and Critical and Cultural Theory
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Ethics and Political Philosophy Public History |
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| Email: | saross@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | 2015 “Thinking Modernist Ethics with Animals in A Passage to India” Twentieth-Century Literature. 63.1. 305-29. 2014 Co-auth. with Jentery Sayers. “Modernism and Digital Humanities” Literature Compass 11/9: 625–633. Co-auth. with Alex Christie and Jentery Sayers. “Expert/Crowd Sourcing for the Linked Modernisms Project” Scholarly Research and Communication. 5(4): 0401186, 11pp. 2014 Co-auth. with Jentery Sayers. “Modernism and Digital Humanities” Literature Compass 11/9: 625–633. "Mrs. Dalloway's Ghosts." Illuminations: New Readings on Virginia Woolf. Carol Merli, ed.. India: MacMillan. 55-72. 2014 Co-auth. with Jentery Sayers. “Modernism and Digital Humanities” Literature Compass 11/9: 625–633. 2013 “A Response to Michael O’Driscoll” The Global Review 1.1. 31-7. 2013 “Modernist Ethics, Critique, and Utopia” in Christine Reynier and Jean-Michel Ganteau, eds. Ethics of Alterity: Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature. Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée. 49-63. Print. 2018 Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting (2018, Bloomsbury Academic) 2016 The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Routledge 2016 2015 The Modernist World, Routledge, co-edited with Allana C. Lindgren. 2015 Dorothy Richardson's Pointed Roofs: A Broadview Literary Text Edition, Broadview Press. Ed. and intr. with Tara Thomson. |
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