Christine Ross

Christine Ross is Agregate Professor and Director of the Art History and Communications Department at McGill University. She teaches history and theory of modern and contemporary art, notably the history of media arts. She is author of Images de surface: l’art vidéo reconsidéré (Artexte, 1996). Her recent publications include Redefinitions of Abjection in Contemporary Performances of the Female Body (Res, Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, 1997), Fantasy and Distraction (Afterimage, 2000), The Insufficiency of the Performative: Video art at the turn of the millennium (Art Journal, 2001) and Vision and Insufficiency: Rosemarie Trockel’s Distracted Eye (October, 2001).