Gross, Jonathan David 1962-

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GROSS, Jonathan David 1962-

PERSONAL: Born November 26, 1962, in New York; son of Theodore L. Gross (a university president); married Jacqueline Russell, March, 1993; children: Sheri Nicole. Ethnicity: "Jewish." Education: Haverford College, B.A., 1985; Columbia University, M.A., 1986, Ph.D., 1992. Politics: Democrat.

ADDRESSES: Home—3812 N. Whipple, Chicago, IL 60618. Offıce—Department of English, DePaul University, 802 W. Belden Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-3214; fax: 773-267-8502. E-mail—jgross@depaul.edu.

CAREER: DePaul University, Chicago, IL, assistant professor, 1992-98, associate professor of English, 1998—. University of Santa Clara, guest lecturer, 1995.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992; grant for England, DePaul University, 1993; Mayer Fund fellow, Huntington Library, 1994; Gladys Krieble Delmas travel grant, American Council of Learned Societies, 1994; fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, 2002; Spirit of Inquiry Award, De Paul University, 2002.

WRITINGS:

(Editor and author of introduction) Byron's "CorbeauBlanc": The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Milbanke, Lady Melbourne (1751-1818), Rice University Press (Houston, TX), 1997.

Byron: The Erotic Liberal, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Byronic Negotiations, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2002; Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic, edited by Bill Weisberger, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2002; Mapping Male Sexualities, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ); and Byron East and West. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals, including European Romantic Review, European Legacy, Studies in English Literature, and Philological Quarterly. Bibliographer, Keats-Shelley Journal, 1995-99.