Dr Alison Ross - Researcher Profile

Biography

I am a graduate of the philosophy programs at Macquarie University (BA Hons.) and the University of Sydney (Ph.D). I have held academic posts in Philosophy at the University of Sydney (1997) and the Australian National University (1998-2000). At Monash University I am a member of the Research Unit in European Philosophy

Qualifications

PH.D.

Institution: University of Sydney

Year awarded: 1998

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

Institution: Macquarie University

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

Deranty, J., Ross, A. (eds), 2012, Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, Continuum, London United Kingdom.

Ross, A. (ed), 2010, Aesthetic Experience, Equinox Publishing Ltd., UK.

Ross, A. (ed), 2008, The Agamben Effect, Duke University Press, Durham NC USA.

Ross, A., 2007, The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA USA.

Book Chapters

Ross, A., 2012, Equality in the Romantic art form: The Hegelian background to Jaques Rancière's 'Aesthetic Revolution', in Jacques Rancière and the Contemporary Scene: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, eds Jean-Philippe Deranty and Alison Ross, Continuum International, London United Kingdom, pp. 87-98.

Deranty, J., Ross, A., 2012, Jacques Ranciere and the contemporary scene: The evidence of equality and the practice of writing, in Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, eds Jean-Philippe Deranty and Alison Ross, Continuum International, London United Kingdom, pp. 1-13.

Ross, A., 2010, Aesthetics (Continental), in A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, eds Graham Oppy, Nick Trakakis, Lynda Burns, Steven Gardner an Fiona Leigh, Monash University Publishing, Australia, pp. 10-14.

Ross, A., 2010, Expressivity, literality, mute speech, in Jacques Ranciere Key Concepts, eds Jean-Philippe Deranty, Acumen Publishing, Durham, pp. 133-150.

Ross, A., 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy: Der Sinn des Bildes, in Das Bild als Denkfigur, eds Simone neuber and Roman Veressov, Wilhelm Fink, Munich, Germany, pp. 315-330.

Ross, A., 2008, Michelangelo Antonioni: the aestheticization of time and experience in The Passenger, in Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema, eds James Phillips, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA USA, pp. 40-51.

Ross, A., 2004, Gaston Bachelard, in Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th-Century European Cultural Theorists, eds Paul Hansom, Gale Group, Detroit, Mich, USA, pp. 1-16.

Ross, A., Ahmadi, A., 2002, Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904 - 1995): epistemology in France, in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 92-99.

Ross, A., 2000, Le Doeuff's Renaissance Amorology, in Michele Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice, eds Max Deutscher, Humanities Press, Amherst New York NY USA, pp. 249-279.

Journal Articles

Ross, A., 2012, Agamben's political paradigm of the camp: its features and reasons, Constellations (Oxford, England) [P], vol 19, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 421-434.

Ahmadi, A., Ross, A., 2012, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: The cinematic telling of a modern myth, Angelaki-Journal Of The Theoretical Humanities [P], vol 17, issue 4, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 179-192.

Ross, A., 2011, After Hegel: Art and ontology in Nancy's critique of romanticism, MonoKL [P], vol 10, MonoKL Publishing House, Turkey, pp. 149-163.

Ross, A., 2011, Moral metaphorics, or Kant after Blumenberg: Towards an analysis of the aesthetic settings of morality, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology [P], vol 104, issue 1, SAGE Publications, UK, pp. 40-58.

Ross, A., 2010, The modern concept of aesthetic experience: from ascetic pleasure to social criticism, Critical Horizons [P], vol 11, issue 3, Equinox Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 333-339.

Ross, A., 2010, The moral efficacy of aesthetic experience: figures of meaning in the moral field, Critical Horizons [P], vol 11, issue 3, Equinox Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 397-417.

Ross, A., 2009, The aesthetic fable: Cinema in Jacques Ranciere's "aesthetic politics", Sub-Stance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism [P], vol 38, issue 1, University of Wisconsin Press, Journal Division, United States, pp. 128-150.

Ross, A., 2009, What is the 'force' of moral law in Kant's practical philosophy?, Parallax [E], vol 15, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 27-40.

Ross, A., 2008, 'Art' in Nancy's 'First Philosophy': The artwork and the praxis of sense making, Research in Phenomenology, vol 38, issue 1, Brill, Leiden The Netherlands, Boston USA, pp. 18-40.

Ross, A., 2008, Derrida's writing-theatre: from the theatrical allegory to political commitment, Derrida Today, vol 1, issue 1, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh UK, pp. 76-94.

Ross, A., 2008, Introduction, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol 107, issue 1, Duke University Press, Durham NC USA, pp. 1-13.

Ross, A., 2008, Why is 'speaking the truth' fearless? 'Danger' and 'truth' in Foucault's discussion of parrhesia, Parrhesia, vol 4, University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC Australia, pp. 62-75.

Ross, A., 2007, The aesthetic anomaly: criticism, art and politics in European philosophy (from Adorno to Ranciere), Theory @ Buffalo, vol 11, issue 1, Theory @ Buffalo, Comparative Literature Department Buffalo NY, pp. 97-120.

Ross, A., 2006, The work of the art-work: Art after Heidegger's Origin of the Work of Art, The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol 37, issue 2, Jackson Publishing and Distribution, Stockport UK, pp. 199-215.

Ross, A., 2005, The art of the sublime: Lyotard and the politics of the avant-garde, Philosophy Today, vol 49, issue 1, De Paul University, Department of Philosophy, USA, pp. 33-45.

Ross, A., 2004, "The Ethics of Embodiment" review of Rosalyn Diprose's Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, Cultural Studies Review, vol 10, issue 1, John Libbey & Company Pty. Ltd., Australia.

Ross, A., 2004, Historical undecidability: the Kantian background to Derrida's politics, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 12, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 375-393.

Ross, A., 2002, Dominique Lecourt?s The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970?s (Verso, London & New York, 2001), Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee, vol 28, issue 2 - 3, Academic Printing & Publishing, Canada.

Ross, A., 2001, Errant beauty: Derrida and Kant on "aesthetic presentation", International Studies in Philosophy, vol XXXIII, issue 2, International Studies in Philosophy and Binghamton University, Binghamton New York NY USA, pp. 87-104.

Ross, A., 2001, The Kantian sublime and the problem of the political, The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol 32, issue 2, Jackson Publishing and Distribution, Cheshire England, pp. 174-187.

Ross, A., 2000, Introduction to Monique David-Menard on Kant and Madness, Hypatia, vol 15, issue 4, Indiana University Press, Bloomington Indiana, pp. 77-82.

Ross, A., 2000, Japaridze?s The Kantian Subject: Sensus Communis, Mimesis, Work of Mourning (SUNY, Albany, 2000), International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol December, Routledge, UK.

Other

Ross, A., 2005, Desire, The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 63-65.

Ross, A., 2005, Immanuel Kant, The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 137-140.

Ross, A., 2005, Lacan, Jacques (1901-81), The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh UK, pp. 140-142.

Ross, A., 2005, Plato (anti-Platonism), The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 208-209.

Ross, A., 2005, Psychoanalysis (entries on Unconscious, Family, Freud), The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 217-221.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Aesthetic experience and the dynamics of moral persuasion: how the aesthetic element of counter culture exerts persuasive force.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Joint-co), Wright, S (Joint).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Aesthetics in contemporary European philosophy - the movement of music in philosophy.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Empty Fables: Jacques Ranciere and Narrative.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Infinity and Love in the Philosophy of Emannuel Levinas.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Nietzsche on Freedom and Forgetting.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Ure, M (Associate), Janover, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Towards a New Aesthetic Modernity.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Work and Non-Work: The Pursuit of Pleasure and the Practice of Freedom in Adorno and Foucault.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bird, T.

Program of Study:

Art's relation to exteriority: the work of materiality in spatial practices. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Burke, E.

Program of Study:

CELEBRITY ANOREXIA: A SEMIOTICS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Cuthbert, D (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Burrows, G.

Program of Study:

Inscriptive Materiality and Vocal Privilege in Classical Roman Poetic Production. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Groves, P (Associate).

Student:

Chen, J.

Program of Study:

An unheimlich ethos: thinking the ethics of finitude in the work of Heidegger, Arendt and Nancy. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Cooke, A.

Program of Study:

TIME TAKEN: THE PROBLEM OF FINITE GIVENNESS IN HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER, DERRIDA AND MARION. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Davies, J.

Program of Study:

Towards a radical empiricism: dynamic ontology in the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main).

Student:

Dean, E.

Program of Study:

Bodily responsiveness and corporeal ethics in Iyengar yoga, Foucault, Irigaray, Levinas and Derrida. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main).

Student:

Flenady, G.

Program of Study:

Politics of Propriety and Play: Derrida's Singularity and Ranciere's Equality. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Frederic, G.

Program of Study:

Philosophy, race, negritude: the ontology of blackness in Kant, Hegel, and Senghor. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Gallagher, H.

Program of Study:

The Very Word - The Sublime Poetics of Indeterminacy in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale". (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Probyn, C (Associate).

Student:

Garrett, J.

Program of Study:

Plato's Heraclitus. (Masters) 2005.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Gronda, H.

Program of Study:

Dance with the body you have: body awareness practices and/as deconstruction. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Rigby, C (Joint-Co), Ross, A (Joint).

Student:

Hill, R.

Program of Study:

interval, sexual difference: Irigaray, Aristotle and Bergson. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main).

Student:

Lane, D.

Program of Study:

In the name of Nietzsche: Deleuze and the aesthetic dimension of thought. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Fliethmann, A (Associate).

Student:

Mcdonald, B.

Program of Study:

Irreconcilable demands: friendship and the question of the political in Aristotle, Kant and Schmitt. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Palmer, S.

Program of Study:

The Work of Signatures: Derrida & Nauman. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Pericic, P.

Program of Study:

"The Passion of the Outside" inside Maurice Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main).

Student:

Perkins, C.

Program of Study:

Your friends and neighbours: the American "smart" film. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Verevis, C (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Ryan, C.

Program of Study:

Transformative Experiences: What is the practical status of Foucault's books of history?. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Shingleton, C.

Program of Study:

AUS DEM DUNKEL: ART AND THE THEORY OF THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Gregory, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Stillwell, R.

Program of Study:

A deathly minor literature: Deleuze and Guattari's concept revised to redress a misunderstanding of Joyce. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Joint-Co), Benjamin, A (Joint).

Student:

Tayton, S.

Program of Study:

Biopolitics and reproductive medicine in contemporary Australia: medical abortion, stem cell science and contested conceptions of reproductive bodies. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Maher, J (Associate).

Student:

Torbett, R.

Program of Study:

The ambiguous pretence. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Whyte, J.

Program of Study:

'Starting from this uncertain terrain': the political thought of Giorgio Agamben. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Philadelphoff-Puren, N (Associate).