Jonathan Gross
Full Professor
DePaul Humanities Center, Director
DePaul University
802 W. Belden Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614
773 325-1780
EDUCATION:
1987-92 Ph.D. Columbia University, President's Fellow
1986-87 M.Phil.Columbia University, President's Fellow
1985-86 M.A. Columbia University
1980-84 B.A. Haverford College
1983 Manchester College, Oxford University
TEACHING:
2005Full Professor, DePaul University
1998-2003 Associate Professor of English,DePaul University
1997-2000Director, M.A. in English, DePaul University
1992-97Assistant Professor of English, DePaul University
1992Adjunct Professor, New York University
1991-92Preceptor, Columbia University
ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS
2006 Summer Stipend, The Sylph
2003University Research Grant, Jefferson’s Newspaper Clippings
2003University Research Grant, Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment
2003Summer Stipend, Jefferson’s Xanadu
2002International Jefferson Memorial Foundation Grant, December 2002: One-Month Fellowship
2002Spirit of Inquiry Award, DePaul University
2001University Research Council Award, Freemasonry and English Literature
2000Summer Stipend, Jefferson’s Xanadu
1995-99Bibliographer, Keats-Shelley Journal
1998 Summer Stipend, Byron: The Erotic Liberal
1999-2000DePaul Humanities Center Fellow, Performing and Adapting Canto 5 of Don Juan for Von Steuben High School
1998University Research Council Grant, Keats-Shelley Bibliographies (1994-1999)
1996 University Research Council, Byron's "Corbeau Blanc", DePaul University
1996Summer Stipend for Research, British Romantic Art, DePaul University
1995Summer Stipend for Research, Byron's Liberalism: The Politics of Feeling, DePaul University.
1995Teaching Award Nominee, DePaul University
1994Gladys Krieble Delmas Travel Grant, American Council of Learned Societies
1994Mayer Fund Fellowship, Huntington Library.
1994University Research Council Grant, DePaul University.
1993University Research Council Grant, DePaul University. Summer Stipend for Research, Lady Melbourne's Letters, DePaul University.
1992 NEH Summer Seminar, "British Romanticism and the Triumph of Liberalism," Johns Hopkins
University. Director: Prof. Jerome Christensen
1986-1992President's Fellow, Columbia University
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Gross, Jonathan, ed. Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic
Love collected by America’s Third President (Hanover: Steerfoth Press, 2006).
Publisher’s Weekly; Newsweek, Checklist, May 22, 2006.
----- with an introduction [30 pages] and annotations [15 pages].Emma; or The Unfortunate
Attachment, by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. Five star review in UK’s Sunday edition,The Independent (Sept. 24, 2004); Jane Austen Newsletter(2005), review by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
-----. Byron: The Erotic Liberal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Reviewed in European Romantic Review (Summer 2002); Keats-Shelley Journal (2002); RON [Romanticism On the Net]; Studies in English Literature (Fall, 2002), and Studies in Romanticism (Winter, 2003).
-----, ed. with an Introduction [50 pg] and annotations [30 pages]. Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Milbanke, Lady Melbourne (1751-1818) [480 pages]. Houston: Rice University Press, 1997; 2nd ed.. Liverpool: Liverpool U P, 1998; College Station: Texas A. & M U P, 1998. Reviews: The Washington Times (Sept. 8, 1997; Section B:4), The Byron Journal 26 (1998):200-201; The Chicago Tribune (Sept. 27, 1998; Section 14:23); The Richmond Review (; Studies in Romanticism 37 (1998):232; Romanticism on the Web 3.2 (March, 2000): (
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Recollecting Emotion in Tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Willa Cather’s
Lucy Gayheart.” Cather Studies (2006): forthcoming.
"'One-Half What I Should Say': Byron's Gay Narrator in Don Juan."European
Romantic Review 9:3 (Summer, 1998): 323-350. Reprinted inMapping Male
Sexualities. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2000.
"Hazlitt's Worshipping Practice in Liber Amoris."Studies in English Literature 35
(1995): 280-298. Reprinted in Garland’s Nineteenth Century Literature.
"Byron and The Liberal: Periodical as Political Posture."Philological Quarterly 73
(1994): 471-85.
Articles
“Byron, Freemasonry, and the Carbonari.” In Freemasonry in Enlightenment Europe,
ed. by William Weisberger. 347-374. New York: Columbia University Press,
2002.
“Lady Melbourne to Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaison or Epistolary Guide?” in
Byronic Negotiations (Salzburg: Institute for American Studies, 2002), pp. 134-150.
“Byron, Annabella, and the Politics of 1813.” Studies in Lord Byron, ed. by William Brewer. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
“Byron’s The Bride of Abydos and Jami’s `Yusef and Zulaikha.’” Byron: East and
West, ed. by Martin Procházka. 103-120. Praze: Universzita Karlova, 2000.
"A World Restored?: Henry Kissinger and the Problems of Peace."The European
Legacy 1 (1996): 239-244.
Reference Entries
Biography of Lady Melbourne. Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford U
P, 2004.
Biography of Charlotte West. Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford U
P, 2004.
"Biographies and Recommended Editions."Columbia History of British Poetry. Ed.
Carl Woodring andJames Shapiro. New York: Columbia U P, 1993.
"Lord Castlereagh; Parliament; The Liberal; William Pitt." Romanticism: An Encyclopedia.
Ed. Laura Dabundo. San Francisco: Garland P, 1992. 79-80.445-46433-35; 458.
Bibliography
“Keats-Shelley Bibliography.” Keats-Shelley Journal 48 (1999):220-275.
“Keats-Shelley Bibliography.” Keats-Shelley Journal 47 (1998):220-287.
“Keats-Shelley Bibliography.” Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1997):221-259.
“Keats-Shelley Bibliography.” Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1996):
“Keats-Shelley Bibliography.” Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1995):
Letters to the Editor
"Byron: the flawed angel." Times Literary Supplement 4889 (April 25, 1997):17.
Reviews
Rev. of The Making of the Poets, by Ian Gilmour, Keats-Shelley Journal (2004).
Rev. of Monk Lewis: A Biography, by Dwight Macdonald, Albion (2003).
Rev. of Records of the Lives of Byron, Shelley, and the Author, by Edward Trelawny, Keats-Shelley Journal (August, 2001): 166-168.
Rev. of Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, by Joanne Wilkes, Romanticism on the Net
(August, 2000)(
Rev. of Byron and the Byron Legend, by Moyra Haslett. Criticism (Fall, 1999): 383.
Rev. of The Shelley-Byron Conversation, by William Brewer. Romantic Web
Circles.(
Rev. of The Romantic Reformation, by Robert Ryan. Albion 30 (Fall, 1999): 221.
Rev. of Byron's Dialectic, by Terence Hoagwood. Keats-Shelley Journal 43 (1994):
216-218.
Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength, by Jerome Christensen. Albion 25 (1993): 515-6.
Rev. of Platonism and the English Imagination, ed. Baldwin and Hutton. Albion 27
(1995): 339-340.
PRESENTATIONS and APPEARANCES
2003Emma’s Unfortunate Attachments, Jane Austen Society of North America, Fortnightly Club, December
13, 2003.
2003 Performing Canto 5 of Byron’s Don Juan. NEH Summer Seminar for High School Teachers. July 24, 2003.
2002 Willa Cather’s My Antonia on Chicago Tonight, Channel 11 with Phil Ponce. Panelists included Stan West, Mary Dempsey, and Zakiah Mohammad discussing the choice of Willa Cather’s My Antonia for the One Book/One Chicago selection.
2002 Panel Discussion. October 17, 2002. With Prof. Susan Rosowski and Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, Mary Dempsey, Moderator.
2002 Teaching Poetry. Chicago Public Library. A 3-hour introduction to high school teachers and the general population, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2001 Byron: The Erotic Liberal, book-signing at Barnes & Noble in Chicago, Sheffield and Webster,
Chicago Ill. October 18.
2000Milt Rosenberg Show, Jane Austen, 2-hour show with Joanna Lipking, Julia Barrett, author of Charlotte,
a continuation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon, September 10, 2000.
1999Milt Rosenberg Show, Diaries and Letters of Wilkie Collins, 2-hour show with Prof. Laurence Lipking, Northwestern University; and William Baker, Northern Illinois University, March 15, 1999.
1997Milt Rosenberg Show, Epistolary Forms. 2-hour show with Prof. Laurence Lipking, Northwestern
University; and Donna Seaman, Booklist. Dec. 16.
1997American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pearson Ave., Chicago. Lecture on Byron's "Corbeau Blanc". Dec. 5.
1997Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Sheffield and Clybourn, Chicago, Ill. Lecture and book signing, Sept. 11.
1997Andrew Patner Show, WBEZ. 40-minute interview concerning Byron's "Corbeau Blanc". Exclusive guest with readings from the book and from Byron's poetry, Sept. 9.
1997Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Author Teas. 30 minute presentation on Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life
and Letters of Lady Melbourne, Sept. 27.
1997"Lady Melbourne's Riddle." 4th Presbyterian Church, Center for Older Adults, April 3.
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
2004 Favorite Poems of Thomas Jefferson,Spring, 2004. LA&S Faculty Research Seminar Series
—Humanities, April 15.
1997"Anne Damer, Macbeth, and Walpole's Castle of Otranto." LA&S Faculty Research Seminar Series-Humanities, DePaul University, October 15.
1996"Lord Byron and the Story of Joseph." LA&S Faculty Research Seminar Series-Humanities, April
8.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2005 Jane Austen and the Epistolary Novel, Jane Austen Society of North America, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Breakout Speaker.
2004 The History of Literary Reception: Jefferson and Oriental Verse, MMLA, November 5, 2004.
2003“No Sex Please, We’re Literary,” MLA Byron Session, organized by Paul Douglass, December 29, 2003; San Diego, CA.
2003“The History of Literary Reception: Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment,” MMLA, November 10, 2003.
2003“Two Visions of George III: Thomas Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence” and Byron’s `Vision of Judgment’”, International Byron Conference, Liverpool, UK.
2003“On Behaving Like a Child: Scenes of Instruction in Clarissa,Nouvelle Heloise, and Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment,” NASSR, Romanticism and Children Conference, New York City, July 2003.
2003“Recollecting Wordsworth and Byron in Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart,” Willa Cather Conference, Breadloaf School, Vermont, August 5, 2003.
2002“Choosing God’s Chosen People: Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and Wordsworth’s “Michael”, International Center for Jefferson Studies, December 14, 2002.
2001 Session Organizer, Byron as Muse, Modern Language Association, December, 2001.
2001Maternal Affection: Two Portraits of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, session organized by George Haggerty, GEMCS Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 11.
2001 “Transatlantic Radicalism: Byron, Callender, and Jefferson” , NASSR, University of Washington, August 23, 2001.
2001 “Byron, Freemasonry, and the Carbonari”, International Byron Society Meeting, University of
Delaware, August 11, 2001.
2000“Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Madame de Stael’s Treatise on the Passions.” NASSR, Tempe, Arizona, September 15, 2000.
2000“Byron and Staël on Liberty.” International Byron Society Meeting, Nottingham England, July 4, 2000.
1999“Whigs and Tories in Ireland: Byron and Richard Sheridan in Parliament.” Irish Studies Conference. May 1, 1999. Roanoke, Virginia.
1998"'The Bride of Abydos and Jami's 'Yusef and Zuleika.'" International Byron Symposium (Prague, Czech Republic), September 1-4.
1998"The Damerian Apollo." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 18.
1997"On Not Anthologizing Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire's The Sylph." Midwest Modern Language Assocation, November 11.
1997"Anne Damer in Walpole's Castle of Otranto: The Evolution of a Feminine Aesthetic." The Gothic Novel & Horace Walpole (Twickenham, UK), July 15.
1997"Byron, Napoleon, and Madame de Stael." Southwestern Society for 18th Century Studies, March 15.
1997"The Epistolary Novel." Session Chair. Southwestern Society for 18th Century Studies, March 15.
1995"`One Half What I Should Say': Byron's Gay Narrator in Don Juan." Modern Language Association, December 28.
1995"Don Juan and the Story of Joseph." American Society for the Study of Romanticism, September 26.
1995"Lady Melbourne to Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaison or Epistolary Guide?" International Byron Symposium (Salzburg, Austria), August 6.
1995"Conservative Statesmen and Romantic Historians: Kissinger, Byron, and the Problem of Peace." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, July 15.
1995"Cold War Diplomacy and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound." Fourth International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies (Bangor, Wales), July 10.
1995"'The Heaven of the Jews': Southey, Byron and the Challenge of the Other." Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University, May 6.
1994"A World Restored?: Henry Kissinger and the Problems of Peace." Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Graz, Austria, August 27.
1993"Byron and The Liberal: Periodical as Political Posture." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 5.
1993"Cold War Liberalism and the New Romanticism." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Western Ontario), August 24.
1993"Hazlitt's Worshipping Practice: A Reading of Liber Amoris." International Association for Philosophy and Literature, May 15.
1992"The Liberal as Libertine: Byron's Politics in 1813." Northwest British Studies Conference, October 31.
1991 Respondent, "Romanticism and Religion." Midwestern Modern Language Association, November 12.
1991"From Caricature to Capitulation: Shakespeare's Changing Interpretation of Machiavelli." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 12.
1990"Lord Byron and the Pope-Bowles Controversy." Pacific Coast Philological Association, November 18.
1990"Marino Faliero: The Aristocrat as Rebel." Columbia University Italian Studies Symposium,
April 15.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1991Writer, "Einstein in America." American Masters Series, PBS Television.
1989Writer, Fodor's Caribbean (1989). Fodor's The South (1989), Random House, Inc.
COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Director, DePaul Humanities Center, 2005
Grants Coordinator for Fulbright, Marshall, and Boren Scholarships, 2003-5
Liberal Arts Domain Chair, 2003-5
Honors Committee, 2002-5
Humanities Center Committee, 2002-5
Liberal Arts Domain Committee, 2002-3
Personnel Committee, English Department, 2000-2001.
Scholarship Committee, DePaul University, 2000-2001.
Hiring Committee, DePaul University, 1998-1999.
Focal Point Seminar, 10 meetings chaired by Chuck Suchar related to the development of Liberal Studies Core Course, "After the Fire", 1997.
Art Gallery Committee, 1997-1998.
Library Committee, meetings chaired by Doris Brown, related to the development of electronic sourcesat the Richardson library, 1997-1998.
Commuter Connection, participated in commuter connection program and attended fall meeting at Loop Campus.
English 340 Review Group, Chaired by Helen Marlborough. Attended both faculty curriculum discussion groups in the fall of 1997.
Honors Colloquium: Participant in Year-Long Program to Revise Honors Curriculum
Reading Group to Evaluate Bibliography, and Literary Criticism Requirements at Graduate Level, Summer 1994; 1995, Chair: Prof. William Fahernbach. I designed a new 400 course in Bibliography and volunteered to teach a pilot version of the course.
Executive Council, 1994-1995: Drafted student evaluation forms, response to Liberal Studies Proposal
Focus Group, May 2, 1995 on One-Year Core Course
Foreign Study Committee (1995-96), designed inter-disciplinary London excursion for Winter break. Organized budget and summarized group's experience for January, 1997 meeting.
Committee for the M.A. Comprehensive Examination, Summer, 1994
Discussion Group for English 120 Symposium, 1994
Round-Table Discussion on Graduate School: Presented information to DePaul undergraduates about the GRE and
Graduate School in English, Sigma Tau Delta, Gamma Psi Chapter, May 25, 1993
Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992-3
Evaluated the objectives of English 120 and the function of survey courses in the English Major
Appointments Committee for Modern British Literature and 18th Century Literature, 1993
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
English Romantic Poetry
Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Bibliography and Literary Research
Epistolary Novel
World Literature: Homer to Woolf
COURSES TAUGHT
Literary Theory and Criticism, DePaul University (Winter, 2005)
William Blake, DePaul University (Winter, 2005)
The British Novel, English 245, DePaul University (Spring, Fall, 2004)
World Literature, Honors 101, DePaul University (Fall, 2004)
Art, Artist, and Audience, Honors 201, DePaul University (2004)
The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley’s Artistic Formation, English 449, DePaul University (Summer, 2004)
“The Eye of Thomas Jefferson,” DePaul University, Honors 300, Junior Sequence, (Winter, 2004)
“Nineteenth Century Literature,” English 340, DePaul University (Fall, 1998; Winter 2004)
“Explore Chicago: Chicago Renaissance Writers,” ISP 102, DePaul University (Fall 2003): Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart
“Explore Chicago: Chicago Renaissance Writers,” ISP, 102, DePaul University (Fall 2002): Sinclair, Norris, Dreiser
William Blake, English 442, DePaul University (Summer 2002)
“Willa Cather and The Novel of Immigration,” DePaul University (Fall 2002)
Explore Chicago: Chicago Renaissance Writers,” ISP 102, DePaul University (Fall, 2001): Sinclair, Dreiser
Explore Chicago: The Pit and Sister Carrie,ISP 102,, DePaul University (Fall, 2000)
“Jefferson and the Pursuit of Happiness,” DePaul University (Fall 2000); designed for Jefferson Quarter, American Studies
Love and Marriage in the Russian and Norwegian Literature: Tolstoy, Ibsen, Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol; English 280, DePaul University (Winter 2000).
Russia and the West, DePaul University (Summer, 2000); designed as a 3-week course for the College of Commerce.
“Napoleon and British Romanticism,” English 349, DePaul University (Spring, 2000)
“Explore Chicago”: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, ISP 102, DePaul University (Fall, 2000)
"After the Fire", Focal Point Seminar, ISP 102, DePaul University (Fall 1997; Fall 1998, Fall 1999)
English 270: Literary Research and Writing, DePaul University (Spring 1997)
English 441: Romantic Prose, DePaul University (Spring 1997)
English 400: Bibliography, DePaul University (Fall, 1996; Fall 1997, Winter 2001)
Exploring British Romanticism, English 349, "The Visionary Gleam: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron and the
Visual Arts," December Quarter Course, DePaul University, London, England (Dec. 1995; Dec. 1996).
Epistolary Novel: Richardson to Laclos, Comparative Literature 389, DePaul University (Spring 1995)
Byron as a Major Author, English 382, DePaul University (Winter 1994; Winter 1997)
Writing and World Literature, Honors 101, DePaul University (Fall 1994, Fall 1995)
Nineteenth-Century English Literature, English 340, DePaul University (Winter 1997, Winter 1998)
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Romantic Poetry and the East, English 442, DePaul University (1995)
Romanticism and the Triumph of Liberalism, English 449, DePaul University (1993)
Inter-Disciplinary Studies 210, 211, and 212, DePaul University (1993-1994; 1995, 1999, 2000)
Topics in English Literature: 19th Century Literature, English 442, DePaul University (1993)
Romantic Poetry, English 349, DePaul University (1993, 1994)
World Literature, English 380, DePaul University (1993)
Advanced Composition, English 300, DePaul University (1992, 1994)
Reading Poetry, English 220, DePaul University (1994, 1994, 1995; 1997; 1998)
Understanding Literature, English 120, DePaul University (1992-93)
The Romantic Movement, New York University (1992)
Literature Humanities, Columbia University (1991-92)
American Literature, The College of New Rochelle (1991-92)
Language Skills, Fashion Institute of Technology (1989)
Logic and Rhetoric, Columbia University (1987-90)
Basic Writing, City College of New York (1986-87)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Modern Language Association (1991-2005); Byron Society (1991-2005; Board Member, 2005); North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (1994-2000); Art Institute of Chicago (1994-1996; 1998); American Society for 18th Century Studies (1998); Midwest Modern Language Association (1997; 2002-2004) South Central Society for 18th Century Studies (1997); Philological Association of the Pacific Coast (1992-1994); American Society for the Study of Romanticism (1995).