Kristin Ross (1953), professor of comparative literature at the University of New York and specialist in French literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is the author, among other books, of "The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune »(1988),« Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture »(1995), awarded the Critic’s Choice Award and the Lawrence Wylie Award, or“ May ʼ68 and Its Afterlives ”(2002).