Kristin Ross (born 1953)[1] is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at New York University.

[2] Ross received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1981 and since then has written a number of books, including The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988), Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995) and May '68 and its Afterlives (2002).

In 2015, her book Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune appeared.

Ross has also translated several works from French including Jacques Ranciere's The Ignorant Schoolmaster.

Along with her research interests in French political culture and literature, Ross's work gains its focus through her interest in urban and revolutionary history, theory, politics, ideology and popular culture.