David Andrew Ross
Teaching Professor · Romanticism
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAbout
David Andrew Ross is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina since 2002. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University (2002), M.Phil. from Oxford (1996), and B.A. from Yale (1992). His research focuses on British literature from 1789–1900 and 1900–present, Irish literature, modernism, science fiction, and intersections between art and literature.
He co-edited the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s catalog The Search for the Avant-Garde: 1946–1969 (2012) and authored A Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats (2009). His recent articles explore 20th-century Chinese art, Korean cinema, and transnational modernist movements. Ross has served as co-editor and book review editor of the Southeast Review of Asian Studies (2010–present) and held leadership roles in the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies.
His teaching spans courses like Modernist Philosophies of Art, Literary Modernism, and Science Fiction & Utopian Literature. Collaborations with his wife, Li-ling Hsiao, include collecting Chinese paintings and Japanese woodblock prints, reflecting his interdisciplinary engagement with visual and literary arts.
