Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her first book, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988) examined left political culture of the late 19th century. Her cultural history of the French 1950s, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995), won the Laurence Wylie award for French cultural studies and a Critic's Choice award; it has just been re-published in France under the title Rouler plus vite, laver plus blanc (Flammarion, 2006). May '68 and Its Afterlives (Chicago, 2002), a study of French memory of the political upheavals of the 1960s, was published in France as Mai 68 et ses vies antérieures(Complexe et Le Monde Diplomatique, 2005). A volume of essays she co-edited entitled Antiamericanismwas published in 2004 by NYU Press. She is the translator of Jacques Rancière's Le Maître ignorant (The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Stanford, 1991, and of several essays by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou.