Cuban Theater Digital Archive

Background

Shideler, Ross Patrick was born on April 12, 1936 in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1958;Master of Arts, University Stockholm, 1963;Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1968.

Career

Instructor in comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1968;assistant Professor of English, Hunter College, New York City, 1968-1969;assistant professor Scandinavian language and comparative literature, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1973;associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1979;professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1979;chairman program in comparative literature, 1979-1986, 92-96.

Works

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Works Gallery

• book

  • Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy 
    

    ( Building on the intellectual and historical context of ...)

  • Per Olov Enquist: A Critical Study (Bibliographies and Indexes in Law and Political Science) 
    

    ( Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the wo...)

  • Voices Under the Ground: Themes and Images in the Early Poetry of Gunnar Ekelof (University of California Publications in Modern Philosophy 104)

• Other Work

  • Author: (monograph) Voices Under the Ground: Themes and Images in the Poetry of Gunnar Ekelof, 1973, Per Olov Enquist-A Critical Study, 1984, Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy, 1999. Translator: (plays) The Night of the Tribades (Per Olov Enquist), 1977, The Hour of the Lynx (Per Olov Enquist), 1990. Co-editor (with Kathleen L. Komar): Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations, Essays in Honor of Ralph Freedman, 1998.

    United States associate editor Swedish Book Review, since 1984.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (Executive Committee division Scandinavian Langs. and Lits. 1993-1997), Society Advancement Scandinavian Studies (executive county 1985-1989, vice president 1997-1999, president since 1999), American Comparative Literature Association, Association Depts. and Programs Comparative Literature (Executive Committee 1993-1994, 94-).