...David Caron Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 David Caron ROSS CHAMBERS: A LEGACY OF LOVE It w­ asn t long before I started to regret using legacy in the title of this group of tributes to Ross Chambers. I guess the word came naturally...

...Peter Brown Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Peter Brown ROSS CHAMBERS AND SYDNEY UNIVERSITY: UNE VIE ANTÉRIEURE Ifirst met Ross Chambers at the start of my third year at the University of Sydney. In t­hose days, t­here was an Honours School...

...Robert St. Clair Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Robert St. Clair HIDING SPOTS IN THE CHAMBERS OF THE HEART Elle est retrouvée Quoi ? ­L Éternité. C est la mer allée Avec le soleil. ­Arthur Rimbaud W­here to begin? I realized...

...Stamos Metzidakis Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Stamos Metzidakis IN MEMORIAM: ROSS CHAMBERS N o, I was closer to him than you . . . N o, I respected him more . . . No, I learned more from him . . . Such are the competing claims one...

...Mary Donaldson-Evans Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Mary Donaldson-E­ vans ROSS CHAMBERS: A FAIR DINKUM AUSSIE Ross Chambers s contributions to Baudelaire studies, as well as to the fields of French and comparative lit­er­a­ture...

...Edward J. Ahearn Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Edward J. Ahearn HONORING ROSS CHAMBERS My first contact with Ross Chambers was a message he sent through one of his former students: Tell Professor Ahearn he should write a book on Rimbaud...

...Michele Longino Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Michele Longino REMEMBERING ROSS CHAMBERS Ablank page: what would Ross say? Do your work. He would always say this, whenever he had the opportunity, which for me was frequent. As a beginning...

...Sylvaine Dauthuille Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Sylvaine Dauthuille ROSS CHAMBERS ET LE CONCEPT DE « LOITERATURE » : UNE POÉTIQUE DE L ABANDON ? Àlire Loiterature, on ne peut qu être frappé par l originalité du propos et de la conduite...

... gifts that Ross Chambers contributed to my professional and intellectual life come through his rethinking of genre, and through his dialogues with and commentaries on Anne Freadman s work on poststructuralist rhet­oric and genre-­awareness. I am thinking of Ross Chambers s and Anne Freadman s sense...

... o­ thers sometimes employed writers without formal qualifications. I had sent out a good 120 letters of interest. Of the three positive responses, only one was ­viable: it came right away from Ross Chambers, a youngish professor who headed the French Department at the University of Sydney. (But his...

...Sharon Marquart Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Sharon Marquart SHIT HAPPENS On, on, one goes, despite every­thing, not knowing why or how. ­Hanif Kureishi, The Tale of the Turd The first time I encountered Ross Chambers...

...Murray Pratt Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Murray Pratt THE END OF DIALOGUE The first time I encountered Ross Chambers was through his work. Devour­ ing Story and Situation many years ago as an e­ ager young lecturer at the University...

...Elisabeth Ladenson Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Elisabeth Ladenson A BRIEF NOTE OF APPRECIATION Inever knew Ross Chambers well, and for a long time I knew him only by reputation. His reputation was such that I ended up imagining him...

... to acknowledge is that the alien scene, the other context, is also part of culture, and thus relevant to the very context in which the form of communication we call witnessing arises. R­ oss Chambers, Untimely Interventions Ross Chambers kindness, generosity and sense of justice w­ ere always apparent...

... consciousness, and the original kynical (literally, doglike ) protest by figures like Diogenes against dominant culture and philosophy. Like Diogenes who dissociated himself from distortions and half-­truths of his society, Ross Chambers embraced an ironic and self-­critical position with regard...

... minutes fast, so actually that drink must often be consumed by 2:20 p.m., even if by that time many have forgotten to notice the difference. Ross Chambers was never a person one would encounter at last call. Even more uncomfortable in a crowd than I, he would show up at the parties of even his closest...

...). * * * It is difficult to describe how much I feel indebted to Ross Chambers. Faced with this seemingly impossible task of expressing, in just a few ­humble words, the im­mense gratitude I feel to have known him and to have shared an orbit with him, I could perhaps sum up my feelings in one ­simple phrase: The world...

..., then chaired by Ross Chambers. By the time of the ­actual exams, in March 1987, I was of course already familiar with Ross as a tremendously smart, congenial, and generous colleague, as well as one of the most eminent figures in our shared field of nineteenth-­century French studies. But the oral exams ­were...

...Tom Trezise Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Tom Trezise REMEMBERING ROSS Afew years ago, Ross Chambers was asked by a university press to evaluate a manuscript I d submitted on the reception of Holocaust survivor testimony. In his report...

... of access to Néron s chamber par une porte au public 1. To cite but one example, see Henry Phillips: En effet, l usurpation de l espace de l autre, et la tentative de le reconquérir forme l un des grands thèmes de Britannicus (42). The Romanic Review Volume 107 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia...