Malcolm Ross (literary critic)

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Malcolm Mackenzie Ross
Born(1911-01-02)January 2, 1911
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Alma materUniversity of New Brunswick
University of Toronto
Cornell University
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Order of Canada
Lorne Pierce Medal

Malcolm Mackenzie Ross,

literary critic
.

Education

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Cora Elizabeth Hewitson and Charles Duff Ross, Ross attended Fredericton High School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the University of New Brunswick in 1933. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1941.[1]

Academic career

Prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell, he had lectured there in its English department. From 1941-42, Ross taught at

Indiana University-Bloomington. From 1945 to 1950, he taught at the University of Manitoba. In 1949, Ross received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent six months studying at Harvard University and six months writing Poetry & dogma: the transfiguration of eucharistic symbols in seventeenth century English poetry in Pasadena, California.[1]

He was a professor of English at Queen's University. He was head of the Department of English from 1957 to 1960 and held the James Cappon Professorship in English from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, he went to the University of Toronto and was the Dean of Arts from 1962 to 1968. From 1968 to 1982, he was a professor and a Thomas McCulloch Professor at Dalhousie University.[2] He was also among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius.

Other career activities

He founded the

McClelland and Stewart, and for several years was its general editor. In 2007 the University of Toronto Press
published New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978, a work by Janet Beverly Friskney that provides an account of the New Canadian Library during the years of Ross's editorship.

He served on the

Jules Leger at Rideau Hall
in the autumn of 1976 to discuss and formulate a policy for the arts and culture in Canada.

The World War II years

Oscar for the work that the NFB did during World War II. In 1945, when Grierson was preparing to leave the NFB, he suggested Ross as one of three possibilities for his replacement; however, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King decided instead to downsize the NFB since the war was over.[3]

Honours

In 1976, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to numerous educational bodies and for his work as an author and as editor of the New Canadian Library".[4] In 1982 he won the Lorne Pierce Medal.[1]

Ross received honorary degrees from the following Canadian universities:

St. Thomas (1976); Trent (1982); Dalhousie (1983); Queen's (1989); Windsor (1989); Toronto (1990); and Acadia (1991). In 1986, Scotland's University of Edinburgh
also awarded Ross an honorary degree.

Death

He died of

Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2002.[1]

Selected works

  • Our sense of identity: a book of Canadian essays (Ryerson Press, 1954)
  • The arts in Canada: a stock-taking at mid-century (Macmillan, 1959)
  • Poets of the Confederation (McClelland & Stewart, 1960)
  • Poetry & dogma: the transfiguration of eucharistic symbols in seventeenth century English poetry (Octagon Books, 1969)
  • Milton's Royalism: A Study of the Conflict of Symbol and Idea in the Poems (Russell & Russell, 1970)
  • The impossible sum of our traditions: reflections on Canadian literature (McClelland and Stewart, 1986)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Laura Groening. "Malcolm Ross: a Sense of Our Identity". University of Western Ontario. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  2. ^ "Malcolm Ross (1911-2002)". University of Western Ontario. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  3. ^ Gary Evans. John Grierson and the National Film Board. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1985. pp.: 233-237
  4. ^ "Order of Canada citation".[permanent dead link]

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