Michael Ross

Michael L. Ross is a graduate of Harvard University (PhD 1966). He has taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Vassar College and McMaster University, where he is now emeritus professor of English and Cultural Studies. His previous book publications include: Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice and Rome (Greenwood 1994), Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction (McGill-Queens UP 2006) and Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising (McGill-Queens UP 2015). His most recent book, Words in Collision: Multilingualism in English-Language Fiction, will be published by McGill-Queens University Press in April of 2023. He has also published numerous articles on writers such as Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.