Malcolm Mackenzie Ross (January 2, 1911 – November 4, 2002) was a Canadian literary critic. He was a cofounder of the publishing imprint New Canadian Library and a member of the Canada Council.
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Education
Ross was born on January 2, 1911, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Cora Elizabeth Hewitson and Charles Duff Ross. He attended Fredericton High School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the University of New Brunswick in 1933. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1941.
Academic career
Prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell, Ross had lectured there in its English department. From 1941-42, Ross taught at Indiana University-Bloomington. From 1945 to 1950, he taught at the University of Manitoba. In 1949, Ross received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent six months studying at Harvard University and six months writing Poetry & dogma: the transfiguration of eucharistic symbols in seventeenth century English poetry in Pasadena, California.