Biography

Ian Campbell Ross is a graduate in English of the University of Sussex and took his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He taught for two years at the University of Birmingham before taking up a post at Trinity College Dublin in 1977. He was elected Fellow in 1989 and took up a Personal Chair as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English in 2008. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, especially the novel, he has written widely on British and Irish authors, including Smollett, Swift and Sterne. He has also written on American literature, including Henry James. With wide-ranging interests in cultural history and comparative literature, he has published a volume on the Dublin Lying-in hospital, the Rotunda; a cultural history of Umbria; an edited collection of essays on Swift, a biography of Laurence Sterne; and has produced scholarly editions of works by Sterne, James and Gian Gaspare Napolitano. A co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and the journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, which he co-edited for 10 years, he is was a co-founder of the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, of which he was a co-director 2000-08. In 2006 he founded the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland (http://www.eclrni.com). He has successfully directed both M.Litt and PhD theses in several areas. He is general editor of the IRCHSS-assisted Early Irish Fiction project (2008-10) He was made a Cavaliere nell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the President of Italy in 2007.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Novels, Chapbooks, Folklore: the several lives of William Chaigneau's Jack Connor, now Conyers; or, John Connor, alias Jack the Batchelor, the Famous Irish Bucker', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 31, 2016, p62-86Journal Article, 2016
  • José Rizal, Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2015, URL
  • José Rizal, "Noli me tangere", litencyc.com.elib.tcd.ie/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35659, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2015, URL
  • José Rizal, "El Filibusterismo", Robert Clark, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2015, URL
  • 'Robert Boyle, "The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2023
  • 'William Chaigneau, "The History of Jack Connor"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2023
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Damn these printers By heaven, I'll cut Hoey's throat': The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (1770), a Catholic novel in eighteenth-century Ireland , Irish University Review, 2018, p250 - 264Journal Article, 2018
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Dominick Kelly's "Battle of the Chaunters" sequence from "Fugitive Pieces" (1770)', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 33, 2018, p135 - 186Journal Article, 2018
  • Maria Edgeworth and the Culture of Improvement in, editor(s)F. Fantaccini and R. Leproni , "Still Blundering into Sense". Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019, pp29 - 46, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, 4th, Perugia, Volumnia, 2020, xviii+493ppBook, 2020
  • '"Alas, Poor YORICK!": The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne' in, editor(s)Adam Green , Public Domain Review Selected Essays: Volume VI, Manchester, PDR Press, 2019, pp90 - 100, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Dominick Kelly , Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2019, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2019, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne: A Life, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2001, 512ppBook, 2001
  • Ian Campbell Ross (ed), Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, 176ppBook, 1986
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: A Cultural History, London, Viking, 1995, 448ppBook, 1995
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, 208ppBook, 1998
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London and New York, Clarendon and Oxford University Press, 1983, 612ppBook, 1983
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Henry James, The Europeans, London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1985, 187ppBook, 1985
  • 'When Smelfungus met Yorick: Smollett and Sterne in the South of France, 1763' in, editor(s)O. M. Brack, Jr , New Essays on Tobias Smollett: in honour of Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Delaware, University of Delaware Press, 2007, pp74 - 93, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2007
  • 'Prose in English 1690-1800: From the Williamite Wars to the Act of Union' in, editor(s)Philip O'Leary and Margaret Kelleher , Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 232 - 281, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2006
  • 'Irish Fiction before the Union' in, Jacqueline Belanger (ed.) , The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Facts and Fictions, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005, 34 - 51, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2005
  • 'Tobias Smollett' in, editor(s)Ian Brown (General Editor) et al. , Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, 3 vols, 2, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp163 - 68, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2006
  • 'Introduction: Locating Swift' in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift , Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp9 - 27, [Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1998
  • 'Singularity and the Syllabus: The Teaching of Swift in Trinity College, Dublin' in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp167 - 179, [Aileen Douglas and Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1998
  • 'The Scriblerians and Swift in Ireland' in, editor(s)Hermann J. Real and Richard H. Rodino , Reading Swift: The Proceedings of the Second Münster Swift Symposium, Munich, Wilhelm Fink, 1993, pp81 - 89, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1993
  • '"No horse is a rational being": Swift, Provost Marsh and Gulliver's Travels in, editor(s)David Scott , Treasures of the Mind, London, Sotheby's, 1992, pp109 - 117, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1992
  • '" A Kind of National Pride": Imagining a Nation in Eighteenth-Century Irish Fiction' in, editor(s)Federico Eguiluz and others (eds.) , XIV Congreso de AEDEAN: Associación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos, Bilbao, Servicio Editorial Universidad del País Vasco/Argitarapen Zerbitzua Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, , 1992, pp133 - 146, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1992
  • 'Fiction to 1800' in, editor(s)Seamus Deane, with Andrew Carpenter and Jonathan Williams , Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Derry, Field Day, 1991, pp1, 682 - 1, 759, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1991
  • 'The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital' in, editor(s)Ian Campbell Ross , Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, pp9 - 52, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1986
  • 'Midwifery' in, editor(s)Ian Campbell Ross , Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, pp125 - 164, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1986
  • '"With dignity and importance," Peregrine Pickle as Country Gentleman,' in, editor(s)Alan Bold , Tobias Smollett: Author of the First Distinction, London and Totowa, N. J., Vision Press and Barnes and Noble, 1982, pp148 - 169, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 1982
  • 'Laurence Sterne' , James Maguire(ed), Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy & Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2009
  • Thomas Amory (1690/1-1788)', [452], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp968 - 969, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • 'Prose and Drama before 1820' and 25 associated entries , Brian de Breffny, Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia, London, Thames and Hudson, 1983, pp133 - 136, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 1983
  • 'Thomas Amory', 'William Chaigneau', 'The Drapier's Letters', 'Life of John Buncle, Esq.', 'A Modest Proposal', 'Frances Sheridan', 'Laurence Sterne' , Brian Lalor, Encyclopedia of Ireland , Dublin and New Haven, Gill and Macmillan and Yale University Press, 2003, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2003
  • 'Bullfighting' and 20 related entries, Eamonn Rodgers, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture, London, Routledge, 1999, pp65 - 67, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 1999
  • 'Tobias Smollett', 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' , Robert Clark, The Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004, URL
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 1, (1986), Ian Campbell Ross, Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1986
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 2, (1987), Ian Campbell Ross, Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1987
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 3, (1988), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1988
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 4, (1989), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1989
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 5, (1990), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1990
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 6, (1991), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1991
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 7, (1992), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1992
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 8, (1993), Ian Campbell Ross, [eds.]Journal, 1993
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 9, (1994), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]Journal, 1994
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 10, (1995), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, Andrew Carpenter, [eds.]Journal, 1995
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Was Berkeley a Jacobite? Passive Obedience Revisited', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 20, 2005, p17 - 30Journal Article, 2005
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"A Collective Enterprise'?: Sterne and the Biographer', The Shandean, 13, 2002, p9 - 27Journal Article, 2002
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Did Sterne read Tom Jones?' , The Shandean, 13, 2002, p109 - 111Journal Article, 2002
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Sterne, Swift, Orrery and the "Rabelaisian Fragment"', Notes & Queries, (December), 2002, p421 - 425Journal Article, 2002
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Entre la joie et la tristesse: Laurence Sterne à Montpellier 1763-4', Etudes Héraultaises, (31-33), 2001, p125 - 128Journal Article, 2001
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"One of the Principal Nations in Europe": The Representation of Ireland in Sarah Butler's Irish Tales', Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 7, (1), 1994, p1 - 16Journal Article, 1994, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Trim (-tram), like master, like man: servant and sexton in Sterne'sTristram Shandy and A Political Romance', Notes and Queries, 36, (1), 1989, p62 - 65Journal Article, 1989
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Thomas Amory, John Buncle, and the Origins of Irish Fiction', Éire-Ireland, XVIII, (3), 1983, p71 - 85Journal Article, 1983
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'New puzzles over the editing of Tristram Shandy', Review, 9, 1987, p329 - 351Journal Article, 1987
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"If we believe report": new biographies of Jonathan Swift', Hermathena, CXXXVII, 1984, p34 - 49Journal Article, 1984
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Rewriting Irish Literary History: the Case of the Irish Novel', Études Anglaises, XXXIX, (4), 1989, p385 - 399Journal Article, 1989
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"More to avoid the expense than the shame": infanticide in the Modest Proposer's Ireland', Swift Studies, 1, 1986, p75 - 76Journal Article, 1986
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick, 'David Garrick or Spranger Barry? a dramatic substitution in Irish editions of Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves', Long Room, 30, 1985, p6 - 10Journal Article, 1985
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Tobias Smollett: gentleman by birth, education, and professsion', British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 5, (2), 1982, p179 - 190Journal Article, 1982
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'An Irish Picaresque Novel: William Chaigneau's The History of Jack Connor', Studies, LXXI, (283), 1982, p270 - 279Journal Article, 1982
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"Everyone to cultivate his own garden": John Evelyn, Voltaire and Candide' , Notes and Queries, 28, (3), 1981, p234 - 237Journal Article, 1981
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Antedatings and an addition to O.E.D.', Notes and Queries, 27, (1), 1980, p26 - 27Journal Article, 1980
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'The Triumph of Prudence over Passion: Nationalism and Feminism in an Eighteenth-Century Irish Novel', Irish University Review, 10, (2), 1980, p232 - 240Journal Article, 1980
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Cagancho and Villalta: an unnoted error in English editions of Death in the Afternoon' , The Library, Sixth Series, 1, (3), 1979, p284 - 285Journal Article, 1979
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Language, Structure, and Vision in Smollett's Roderick Random' , Études Anglaises, XXXI, (1), 1978, p52 - 63Journal Article, 1978
  • Ian Campbell Ross, . 'Smollett and the Jew Bill of 1753', American Notes and Queries, XVI, (4), 1977, p54 - 55Journal Article, 1977
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Gulliver's Travels into France: Swift and the Abbé Desfontaines', Translation Ireland, 13, (4), 1999, p15 - 16Journal Article, 1999
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr , 1 - (1986), Ian Campbell Ross et als, [Member of Editorial Board], 1986-presentJournal, 1986
  • Hermathena, (1984), J. Bartlett et als, [Member of Editorial Board], 1984-90Journal, 1984
  • [Various], Robert Welch, Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 1996
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: A Cultural History, revised edition, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1996, xviii + 430 ppBook, 1996
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Yorick and Smelfungus: two martyrs on the threshold of the gods, The Shandean, 16, 2005, p108 - 113Journal Article, 2005
  • Irish Crime Fiction in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook to Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp353 - 369, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2020
  • "We Irish": Writing and Identity from Berkley to Burke in, editor(s)Moyra Haslett , Irish Literature in Transition: Irish Literature 1700-80, Cambridge, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp49 - 67, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2020
  • Goldsmith and Fiction in, editor(s)David O'Shaughnessy and Michael Griffin , Oliver Goldsmith in Context , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2024
  • Jonathan Swift: Publishing History and Legacy: Reputation in Ireland in, editor(s)Pat Rogers, Joseph Hone , Jonathan Swift in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp75 - 82, [Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2024
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Oliver Goldsmith's Indigent Philosopher, U.S. foreign policy, and three American editions of The Vicar of Wakefield, 1791-1839', The Library, 2023Journal Article, 2023
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Anne Markey, Dominick Kelly"s `The Humble Petition" and the Poor Scholar: an English poem in Gaelic metre, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 35, 2020, p84 - 96Journal Article, 2020
  • 'Dominick Kelly' in, editor(s)James McGuire , Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin, RIA, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2023
  • [Anon], The Fair Hibernian in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2024
  • Dominick Kelly, 'The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2023
  • 'Laurence Sterne's life, milieu and literary career' in, editor(s)Thomas Keymer , Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp5 - 20, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2009
  • The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd, [Editor for Irish Literature in English], 2006Editorial Board, 2006, URL
  • Anne Markey and Ian Campbell Ross, 'Vertue Rewarded; or the Irish Princess: Clonmel in a seventeenth-century Irish novel', Tipperary Historical Journal, 2007, p45 - 54Journal Article, 2007
  • Ian Campbell Ross , '"A very knowing American": the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Swift's Modest Proposal', Modern Language Quarterly, 68:4, 2007, p493 - 516Journal Article, 2007
  • Gian Gaspare Napolitano, translated, and with an essay by Ian Campbell Ross, and an essay by Trevor Royle, To War with the Black Watch, Edinburgh, Birlinn, 2007, vi + 183ppBook, 2007
  • 'The Writing Master's Ruler: Straight Lines and Digressions in the Fiction of Laurence Sterne and Italo Calvino' in, editor(s)Roberto Bertoni , Twenty Years After. An 'Irish' Calvino?, Turin and Dublin, Trauben in association with Department of Italian, TCD, 2007, pp65 - 80, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2007, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross , 'Ottomans, Incas, and Irish Literature: Reading Rycaut', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 22, 2007, p11 - 27Journal Article, 2007
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A new edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, 658ppBook, 2009
  • Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen, AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies & Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, [Member of Editorial Advisory Board], 2007Editorial Board, 2007
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett, Early Irish Fiction: a series of Irish novels, 1680 - 1820, Dublin, Four Courts, 2010Book, 2010
  • Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey, 'From Clonmel to Peru: Barbarism and Civility in Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess', Irish University Review, (38, 2), 2008, p179 - 202Journal Article, 2008
  • 'William Chaigneau (1709-1791), [5018], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 10, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp51 - [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • 'Richard Griffith (d. 1788), [11608], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp974 - 975, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • 'Frances Sheridan (1724-1766)', [25365], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 50, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp295 - 296, [Ian Campbell Ross ]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • 'Swift and the City' in, editor(s)Máire Kennedy , Reading Gulliver, Dublin, Dublin City Libraries, 2008, pp1 - 27, [Ian Campbell Ross ]Book Chapter, 2008
  • Tobias Smollett, , 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004, URL
  • Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004, URL
  • Tobias Smollett, 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004, URL
  • Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2003, [Ian Campbell Ross ]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2003, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Histories, Lives and Sub-chantresses: Laurence Sterne's 1759 reading', The Shandean, 20, 2009, p9 - 22Journal Article, 2009
  • Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey (eds), Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess, Early Irish Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 162ppBook, 2010
  • Anne Markey and Ian Campbell Ross, 'Vertue Rewarded; or the Irish Princess: Clonmel in a seventeenth-century Irish novel, Tipperary Historical Journal, 2007, p45 - 54Journal Article, 2007
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, & Anne Markey (eds), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales, Early Irish Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 121ppBook, 2010
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Mapping Ireland in Early Fiction', Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, p1 - 20Journal Article, 2011
  • Ian Campbell Ross and David Berman, George Berkeley and the authorship of 'The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca', Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, p196 - 201Journal Article, 2011
  • Irish University Review, 41, 1, (2011), xviii + 253p, Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett, [eds.], Guest editorsJournal, 2011
  • Ian Campbell Ross and Aileen Douglas (eds), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, 200ppBook, 2011
  • 'Introduction' in, editor(s)Declan Burke , Down these Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp14 - 35, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter, 2011
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Introduction: Irish Fiction 1660-1830, Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, pxv - xviiJournal Article, 2011
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, Perugia, Volumnia, 2012, 502pp + 48 pp of illustrationsppBook, 2012
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, 3rd rev. ed., Oxford, Signal Books, 2013, xviii + 503 pp + 48 pp ill.ppBook, 2013
  • Éire-Ireland. Special Number: Crime in Ireland since 1921, (2014), 207p, William Meier and Ian Campbell Ross, [eds.]Journal, 2014
  • Ian Campbell Ross (ed.), William Chaigneau, The History of Jack Connor, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 269ppBook, 2013
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Carlo Denina, "Mylady Mackenzie", and the Enlightenment Construction of Scottish and Irish Literature, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 6, (1), 2012, p1 - 23Journal Article, 2012
  • Ian Campbell Ross, William Meier, 'Introduction', Éire-Ireland. Special Number: Crime in Ireland since 1921, 2014, p7 - 21Journal Article, 2014
  • William Chaigneau, Literary Encyclopedia, 2014, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, URL
  • 'The History of Jack Connor', Literary Encyclopedia, 2014, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014
  • Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Literary Encyclopedia, Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2015, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross, "Alas, Poor YORICK!": The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne, The Public Domain Review, 2018Journal Article, URL
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Swift's Ireland, Dublin, Eason, 1983Book
  • Ian Campbell Ross, Jonathan Swift: 1667-1745. An Address delivered in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 19 October 1995, the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1995Book
  • Ian Campbell Ross, '"Le Gascon et le Patois": une lettre de Swift en français', Contacts, 20, 1981, p23 - 25Journal Article
  • Ian Campbell Ross and Roberto Bertoni, 'Invito ad una lettura di Italo Calvino', Italia Stampa, III, 1986, p19-Journal Article
  • Ian Campbell Ross, The 'poor scholar' in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century writing, History Ireland, 29, (3), 2021, p30 - 33Journal Article
  • Laurence Sterne, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter
  • Ian Campbell Ross, 'Lunacies', London Review of Books, 25, (20), 2003, p28 - 29Journal Article
  • Aileen Douglas, Ian Campbell Ross, Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 384 ppppBook
  • Ian Campbell Ross, David Dickson, Seán Duffy, Cathal Ó Háinle (eds), Ireland and Scotland: Nation, Region, Identity. A record of the Interdisciplinary conference held in Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Film Centre 29-30 September 2000, Dublin, The Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, TCD, for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, 2001, 105ppBook
  • 'Irish Crime Fiction: Select Reading 1829-2011' in, Down these Green Streets, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp362 - 368, [Shane Mawe and Ian Campbell Ross]Book Chapter

Research Expertise

Professor Ross has written widely on Irish literature in English, with particular emphasis on the period 1690-1800. A co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, he also co-founded the journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, which he co-edited for 10 years. A former chair of the international steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, he is now co-director of the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and a co-director of HEA-funded research projects that have brought over €1,500,000 into research in the arts and humanities (1999-2005). A contributor to the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1996) and the Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006), he has also contributed to many standard reference works, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and the Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). His work on travel writing includes Umbria: a cultural history (Viking, 1995; 4th revised ed. Volumnia, 2020). He is co-General Editor of 'Early irish Fiction, c. 1680-c.1820' (Dublin: Four Courts Press), a series of critical editions of novels, for which he has edited or co-edited [Anon], Vertue Rewarded; or, the Irish Princess (2010), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales (2010), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion (2011), and William Chaigneau, The History of Jack Connor (2013).

  • Title
    Irish-Scottish projects in Arts and Humanities
    Summary
    An interdisciplinary project involving comparative research in English and Irish language and literature and medieval and modern Irish history
    Funding Agency
    HEA
    Date From
    2002
    Date To
    2005
  • Title
    Early Irish Fiction 1680-1820
    Summary
    A series of critical editions of early Irish prose fiction, to be published by Four Courts Press. The first three titles, to appear in 2009 and 2010, are 'Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey; Sarah Butler, 'Irish Tales', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Aileen Douglas, and Thomas Amory, 'Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain', ed. Moyra Haslett.
    Funding Agency
    IRCHSS
    Date From
    2008
    Date To
    2010

Recognition

  • Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia 2007
  • F.T.C.D. 1989
  • Chair of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag 1991
  • Secretary of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag 1988
  • Member of the Editorial Committee, Literary Encyclopedia present
  • Co-founder of journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, and co-editor 1995
  • Member of editorial board, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr present
  • Co-founder of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies present
  • Founder and member of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland [ECLRNI] (http://www.eclrni.com) present
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review present
  • Chair of the inter-university steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative 1996-2000
  • Member of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative steering committee 1996-present
  • Membro Aggregato, Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale pr gli Studi Irlandesi Scozzesi (CRISIS), Università degli Studi, Roma Tre. 2011-
  • Chairman, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag 1989-1992
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review 2009-
  • Secretary, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag 1986-89
  • Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi, Roma Tre 2008-
  • Convenor, Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland: http://www.eclrni.com/ 2006-present
  • Visiting Professor, Ateneo de Manila University 2013-14
  • Member, Advisory Board, IRCHSS Research Project, An Electronic Edition to the Loebers' Guide to Irish Fiction 2011-