(b. 1956) Perennially quotable, youthfully accoutred Scottish professor hired from Princeton in 1993 to direct American Studies at New York University. Ross, once said he taught at Princeton “to have access to the minds of the children of the ruling class”, helped pioneer the field of cultural studies; he now presents himself as an implacable enemy of empiricism and an enthusiastic banner-waver for subcultural styles.
As an editor of the journal Social Text, Ross found his agent-provocateur confidence temporarily checked in May, 1996, when he accepted for publication a postmodern critique of scientific method that turned out to be a parody by NYU physicist Alan Sokal.
Ross’s acceptance of the article–which, among other things, denied the constancy of both pi and the constant G–was a gaffe enjoyed by skeptical commentators on both the right and the left, whose doubt about the legitimacy of Cultural Studies was promptly redoubled.
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