Janice Ross

Dance Historian and Critic, Janice Ross (B.A. Art History, U.C. Berkeley; M.A. Dance Education, Stanford; Ph.D. Education/Art, Stanford) is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Dance Division. She joined Stanford's Dance faculty in 1987. She teaches courses in Dance Gender and History, Performance Art and Postmodern Dance, Dance in Prisons, Dance and Popular Culture, and Dance Criticism.

Ross is the author of Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and The Beginning of Dance in American Higher Education (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) and of a forthcoming critical biography of Anna Halprin, Experience as Performance: Dance, American Culture & Anna Halprin (University of California Press 2005). Her writings on dance also appear in numerous anthologies.

For 10 years, Ross was staff dance and performance art critic for The Oakland Tribune. She has been San Francisco correspondent for Dancemagazine since 1976. She has written for The New York Times & The Los Angeles Times among other publications.
Ross has been a recipient of fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center (2001-2002), the Djerassi Resident Artists Fund (2002) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2001). She is a past president of the Dance Critics Association and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Dance History Scholars.

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