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 Professor Ian Campbell Ross
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Career History:
Ian Campbell Ross is a graduate of Sussex, Dublin and Edinburgh universities. A Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Associate Professor of English, he is currently Co-Director of the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies and Director of Research in the School of English. Prof. Ross was a co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Eireann san Ochtú Céad Déag and co-founder of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr which he co-edited 1986-1995. He is the founder and current convenor of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland.
Recent and forthcoming publications
Ian Campbell Ross has published widely, particularly on eighteenth-century Irish and Scottish literature and social history. His principal interests include prose fiction, Smollett, Sterne, Swift, and travel writing. He also has interests in comparative literature.
Books
2007
Gian Gaspare Napolitano, To War with The Black Watch, translated with an introduction by Ian Campbell Ross, and an historical essay by Trevor Royle. Edinburgh: Birlinn
Essays in Books
2009
‘Laurence Sterne’s life, milieu and literary career’, in Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, ed. Thomas Keymer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [forthcoming]
2008
‘Swift and Dublin’, in Máire Kennedy (ed), One City, One Book. Dublin: Dublin Public Libraries [forthcoming].
2007
‘When Smelfungus met Yorick: Sterne and Smollett in the South of France, 1763’, in O. M. Brack, Jr. (ed), New Essays on Smollett: in honour of Paul-Gabriel Boucé. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press. pp. 74-93.
‘The Writing Master’s Ruler: Straight Lines and Digressions in the Fiction of Laurence Sterne and Italo Calvino’, in Roberto Bertoni (ed), Twenty Years After: An ‘Irish’ Calvino. Turin, Trauben. pp. 65-80.
‘Challenging the Labyrinth’, in Roberto Bertoni (ed), Twenty Years After: An ‘Irish’ Calvino. Turin, Trauben. pp. 119-22 [with Roberto Bertoni].
2006
‘Tobias Smollett: in The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, ed. Ian Brown, Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock, 3 vols. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Vol. 2, pp. 163-8.
2005
‘Prose in English 1690-1800: From the Williamite Wars to the Act of Union’, in The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1, pp. 232-81.
‘Fiction before the Union’, in Jacqueline Belanger (ed), Irish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts. pp. 34-51.
2004
‘Thomas Amory (1690/1-1788), 452, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Clarendon. 1, pp. 968-9.
‘William Chaigneau (1709-1791), 5018, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Clarendon. 10, p. 51.
‘Richard Griffith (d. 1788)’, 11608, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Clarendon. 23, pp. 974-5.
‘Frances Sheridan (1724-1766)’ 25365 in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Clarendon. 50, pp. 295-6.
Electronic Publishing
2005-present
Editor, ‘Irish Literature in English’, The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
‘Tobias Smollett’
‘The Adventures of Roderick Random’ in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
‘The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle’ in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
‘The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom’ in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
‘The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves’ in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker’ in The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary, ed. Robert Clark: http:www.LitEncyc.com
Articles in Journals
2007
‘Ottomans, Incas, and Irish Literature: Reading Rycaut’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 22: 11-27.
‘”A very knowing American”: the Inca Garcilso de la Vega and Swift’s A Modest Proposal’, Modern Language Quarterly, 68:4: 493-516.
‘Vertue Rewarded; or The Irish Princess: Clonmel in a seventeenth-century Irish novel’, Tipperary Historical Journal, 45-54 [with Anne Markey].
2005
‘Was Berkeley a Jacobite? Passive Obedience Reconsidered’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 20: 17-30.
‘Smelfungus and Yorick: Two Martyrs on the threshold of the gods’, The Shandean, 16: 108-13.
Professor Ross has also written or edited the following books: Laurence Sterne: A Life (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift [with Aileen Douglas and Patrick Kelly] (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998); Umbria: A Cultural History (London: Viking, 1995); Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, the Rotunda (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1986); Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983; rev. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) and Henry James, The Europeans (1985; rev. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2001).
Current Research
The recipient of an IRCHSS Small Research Grants award of €50,000 for 2008-2010, Professor Ross is Principal Investigator for the Early Irish Fiction project, a series of annotated, scholarly editions of Irish fiction c. 1680-c. 1810; his co-investigators are Dr. Aileen Douglas, School of English, TCD, and Dr. Moyra Haslett, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. It is planned that the first three titles in the series be published by the end of 2009.
Professor Ross has also been commissioned by Oxford University Press to produce a new edition of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman for publication in 2009. He is currently completing a study of writing on travel to Spain.
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Professor Ian Campbell Ross, B.A., M.A., Ph.D, F.T.C.D., Cavaliere della Stella dell’Ordine della Solidarietà Italiana
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2
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