Profile
Dr. Christine Ross
Affiliation
McGill UniversityAcademy or College
Academy of the Arts and HumanitiesYear Elected
2010Areas of Interest
Contemporary art, modernity, time, media, visuality
Ross, Christine - Art History - McGill University
Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She has recently published The Aesthetics of Disengagement (2006) and co-edited Disengagement (2006) and co-edited Precarious Visualities (2008). Her book on Passages of time in Contemporary Art will be published in 2011.
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Ross, Christine - Art History - McGill University
Christine Ross, James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History, is internationally recognized as a leading scholar of contemporary art history. Her pathbreaking work ranges over several themes, including video; performance and new media art; art, science and technology; subjectivity, identify and the body in contemporary art; feminism and gender in art and art history; and contemporary Canadian art. An internationally-renowned scholar of performance art, Dr. Ross is the author of and editor of the three widely acclaimed scholarly books, over 50 chapters and articles in prominent collections and peer-reviewed journals in art history, new media studies, and visual culture.