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Professor Ian Campbell Ross

Fellow Emeritus (Fellows Emeritii)
      
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Professor Ian Campbell Ross

Fellow Emeritus (Fellows Emeritii)

 icross@tcd.ie

 


Ian Campbell Ross is a graduate in English of the University of Sussex and took his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He taught for two years at the University of Birmingham before taking up a post at Trinity College Dublin in 1977. He was elected Fellow in 1989 and took up a Personal Chair as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English in 2008. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, especially the novel, he has written widely on British and Irish authors, including Smollett, Swift, Sterne and Goldsmith. He has also written on American literature, including Henry James. With wide-ranging interests in cultural history and comparative literature, he has published 'The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in hospital, the Rotunda, 1745-85' (1986); 'A cultural history of Umbria (5th rev. ed 2020); and an edited collection of essays on Swift (1998). He is author of the highly praised biography 'Laurence Sterne: A Life' (OUP, 2001); and edited Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Genteman' (OUP, 1983; rev. with new introduction (2009). He has edited Henry James, 'The Europeans' (1985) and edited and translated Gian Gaspare Napolitano's 'In guerra con gli scozzesi' as 'To War with The Black Watch' and, most recently, Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (CUP, 2024). His course, 'Detective Fiction' introduced the study of Popular Literature in the School of English and he wrote the first scholarly overview of Irish crime fiction in 'The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction' (2020). He is co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag (1985-) and the journal, 'Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr' (1986-), which he co-edited for 10 years. He was a co-founder of the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, of which he was a co-director 2000-08. In 2006 he founded the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland (http://www.eclrni.com). He was general editor of the IRCHSS-assisted Early Irish Fiction project (2008-10). He successfully directed both M.Litt and PhD theses in several areas. He has been a visiting professor in the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and at the Università Roma 3. He was made a Cavaliere nell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia by the President of Italy in 2007.
  Biography   Detective and Crime Fiction   Eighteenth-Century British and Irish Literature, c.1690-1830   Jonathan Swift   Textual Editing   The Novel, esp. Smollett, Sterne, James   Travel Literature
Project Title
 Early Irish Fiction 1680-1820
From
2008
To
2010
Summary
A series of critical editions of early Irish prose fiction, to be published by Four Courts Press. The first three titles, to appear in 2009 and 2010, are 'Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey; Sarah Butler, 'Irish Tales', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Aileen Douglas, and Thomas Amory, 'Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain', ed. Moyra Haslett.
Funding Agency
IRCHSS
Programme
Government of Ireland Small Research Grants
Project Title
 Irish-Scottish projects in Arts and Humanities
From
2002
To
2005
Summary
An interdisciplinary project involving comparative research in English and Irish language and literature and medieval and modern Irish history
Funding Agency
HEA
Programme
PRTLI

Details Date
Visiting Professor, Ateneo de Manila University 2013-14
Member, Advisory Board, IRCHSS Research Project, An Electronic Edition to the Loebers' Guide to Irish Fiction 2011-
Membro Aggregato, Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale pr gli Studi Irlandesi Scozzesi (CRISIS), Università degli Studi, Roma Tre. 2011-
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review 2009-
Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi, Roma Tre 2008-
Convenor, Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland: http://www.eclrni.com/ 2006-present
Chair of the inter-university steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative 1996-2000
Member of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative steering committee 1996-present
Chairman, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag 1989-1992
Secretary, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag 1986-89
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Secretary of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag 1986 1988
Chair of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag 1988 1991
Co-founder of journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, and co-editor 1986 1995
Co-founder of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag 1986
Member of editorial board, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr 1986 present
Member of the Editorial Committee, Literary Encyclopedia 2006 present
Founder and member of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland [ECLRNI] (http://www.eclrni.com) 2006 present
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review 2009 present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 2008 present
Aileen Douglas, Ian Campbell Ross, Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 384 pppp, Book, PUBLISHED
Goldsmith and Fiction in, editor(s)David O'Shaughnessy and Michael Griffin , Oliver Goldsmith in Context , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, APPROVED
[Anon], The Fair Hibernian in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, APPROVED
Jonathan Swift: Publishing History and Legacy: Reputation in Ireland in, editor(s)Pat Rogers, Joseph Hone , Jonathan Swift in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp75 - 82, [Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Dominick Kelly' in, editor(s)James McGuire , Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin, RIA, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Laurence Sterne, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, APPROVED
Dominick Kelly, 'The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, APPROVED
'William Chaigneau, "The History of Jack Connor"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, SUBMITTED
'Robert Boyle, "The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, SUBMITTED
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Oliver Goldsmith's Indigent Philosopher, U.S. foreign policy, and three American editions of The Vicar of Wakefield, 1791-1839', The Library, 2023, Journal Article, APPROVED
  

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Ian Campbell Ross, The 'poor scholar' in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century writing, History Ireland, 29, (3), 2021, p30 - 33, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, "Alas, Poor YORICK!": The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne, The Public Domain Review, 2018, Notes: [trans. into Portuguese; https://medium.com/@rntpincelli/a-morte-e-vida-de-laurence-sterne-8a51a5356059], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
'Irish Crime Fiction: Select Reading 1829-2011' in, Down these Green Streets, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp362 - 368, [Shane Mawe and Ian Campbell Ross], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Lunacies', London Review of Books, 25, (20), 2003, p28 - 29, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, David Dickson, Seán Duffy, Cathal Ó Háinle (eds), Ireland and Scotland: Nation, Region, Identity. A record of the Interdisciplinary conference held in Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Film Centre 29-30 September 2000, Dublin, The Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, TCD, for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, 2001, 105pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, Jonathan Swift: 1667-1745. An Address delivered in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 19 October 1995, the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1995, Book, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross and Roberto Bertoni, 'Invito ad una lettura di Italo Calvino', Italia Stampa, III, 1986, p19-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, Swift's Ireland, Dublin, Eason, 1983, Book, PUBLISHED
Ian Campbell Ross, '"Le Gascon et le Patois": une lettre de Swift en français', Contacts, 20, 1981, p23 - 25, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia 2007
F.T.C.D. 1989
Professor Ross has written widely on Irish literature in English, with particular emphasis on the period 1690-1800. A co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, he also co-founded the journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, which he co-edited for 10 years. A former chair of the international steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, he is now co-director of the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and a co-director of HEA-funded research projects that have brought over €1,500,000 into research in the arts and humanities (1999-2005). A contributor to the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1996) and the Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006), he has also contributed to many standard reference works, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and the Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). His work on travel writing includes Umbria: a cultural history (Viking, 1995; 4th revised ed. Volumnia, 2020). He is co-General Editor of 'Early irish Fiction, c. 1680-c.1820' (Dublin: Four Courts Press), a series of critical editions of novels, for which he has edited or co-edited [Anon], Vertue Rewarded; or, the Irish Princess (2010), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales (2010), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion (2011), and William Chaigneau, The History of Jack Connor (2013).