...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...

...Nathaniel Wing Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Nathaniel Wing BEING WITH ROSS These few remarks are from a long retired, occasional colleague of Ross Chambers. I first met Ross in 1973 when I gave a paper on Baudelaire at the Kentucky...

...Ali Behdad Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Ali Behdad REMEMBERING ROSS, THE KYNIC In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk makes a distinction between modern cynicism, which he defines as an enlightened form of false...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Kristin Ross Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Kristin Ross PHIL WATTS, READER OF RANCIERE The title given to my remarks in the program, which I've kept here, is a bit misleading, for I am not going to try to situate Phil Watts among the interpreters of jacques...

...Ross Hamilton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Ross Hamilton PLAYING WITH CHANCE: ROUSSEAU'S ILLUMINATION Gambling obsessed all levels of French society during the Enlightenment. Louis XIV held appartements du roi given over to gambling three times a week...

... 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...

... think tank that I had launched in late 1974. Ross s secretary was an aging person who scrupulously protected him against intrusions. Her first name was Ivy. She made me think of Ivy Compton Burnett s The Last and the First that a student translated into French ­under my direction. Ouroboros was a direct...

... 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...

...Anne Herrmann Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Anne Herrmann QUEER COUPLINGS Several years ago, shortly ­after I retired from the University of Michigan and moved to Seattle, Ross wrote me a letter. It was written, in part, in response...

..., 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...

...Patty Keller Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Patty Keller THE TASK IS TO SCATTER WELL Iam sitting down, once again, to write some thoughts on Ross. Notes from the heart. It is aftern­ oon. It is raining. I remember him well. And not so well...

... this morning as I was somewhat anxiously pacing around my computer in a procrastinatory dance that I m certain he would have chuckled at ­that I was thinking of calling Ross on the phone. This happens somewhat frequently, and is of a kind with the postcards I ve accumulated since mid-­October of last year. Old...

...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...