Grossman, Jonathan H.
Associate Professor
Humanities 268
grossman@humnet.ucla.edu
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Education

Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
M.A., English, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
B.A., English, Religious Studies, Brown University, 1989

Publications

Book

The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002. (available [Amazon] or [Hopkins])

Articles

"Alibis." Raritan 24 (Summer, 2004): 133-150. [LION online version (use page view to see illustrations)]

"The Labor of the Leisured in Emma: Class, Manners, and Austen." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54 (September, 1999): 143-164. [JSTOR online version]

"Representing Pickwick: The Novel and the Law Courts." Nineteenth-Century Literature 52 (September, 1997): 171-197. [JSTOR online version]

"The Mythic Svengali: Anti-Aestheticism in Trilby." Studies in the Novel 28 (Winter, 1996): 525-542. [LION online version (use page view to see illustrations)]

"The Absent Jew in Dickens: Narrators in Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, and A Christmas Carol." Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996): 37-57.

Reprints

"Trial, Alibi, and the Novel as Witness." In Mary Barton: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Thomas Recchio. New York: Norton, 2008. From chapter five of The Art of Alibi. [Amazon.com]

"Manners in Emma." In Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma. Ed. Marcia Folsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. Revised reprint of "The Labor of the Leisured." [Amazon.com]

"In the Courtroom of Bulwer's Newgate Novels: Narrative Perspective and Crime Fiction." In The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections. Ed. Allan Christensen. University of Delaware Press, 2004. Revised reprint of chapter 6 of The Art of Alibi. [Amazon.com]

Short Essays 

"Edward Bulwer Lytton." Oxford Encyclopedia of English Literature Vol. 1. Eds. David Scott Kastan and Nancy Armstrong. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006): 308-12.

"Anne Elliot Bound Up in Northanger Abbey: The History of the Joint Publication of Jane Austen’s First and Last Complete Novels," Persuasions 27 (2005): 195-207.

Work-in-Progress

Now and Meantime: Charles Dickens and the Revolution in Transportation (book ms)

Conferences, Talks

"meantime/mean time" Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, August 2008.

"Systems" (chapter three, book ms), Berkeley English 19thc and Beyond Working Group, April 2008.

"Community in Motion," Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, August 2007.

"Now and Meantime: International Connections in Little Dorrit," Mellon Global 19thc Workshop, UC--Riverside, May 2007.

"Now and Meantime: International Connections in Little Dorrit," Victorian Studies Seminar, Rice University, November 2006.

Faculty organizer, "Dickens Universe Winter Graduate Conference," UCLA, February 2006.
Conference program available:

"Passengers of History," MLA, Washington, DC, December 2005.

Conference organizer (with Anne Mellor), "Politicizing Jane Austen," Clark Library, March 2005.
Conference program available:

Discussion of The Art of Alibi, Victorian Group, UC--Irvine, January 2005.

"Anne Elliot Bound Up in Northanger Abbey? Or, the Case of Jane Austen and Michael Sadleir," UCLA Special Collections, JASNA conference, October 2004.

"Passengers of History," Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, August 2004.

Conference organizer, "Speed, Technology, and the Invention of Change," UCLA, March 2004.
Conference program available:

"Time and the Circling of the World," MLA, San Diego, December 2003.

"Eccentricities of the Everyday," Dickens Panel, MLA, San Diego, December 2003.

"Pickwick & Serialization," Berkeley English 19thc and Beyond Working Group, November 2003.

"The Speeding of the Pickwick Coach," NVSA: Technologies and Media in the Nineteenth Century, MIT, Boston, April 2003.

Chair and organizer, Law and Literature panel, Locating the Victorians, South Kensington Science Museum, London, July 2001.

"The Hidden Past of Alibis," Law and Literature Conference, NYCEA, St. John's University, April 2001; also delivered at "Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics," Bath Spa University College, July 2001; and to the Nineteenth-Century Group, Johns Hopkins University, February 2001.

"The Literary Form of Bulwer's Newgate Novels," Bulwer-Lytton 2000 Conference, University of London, July 2000.

"The Juridical Form of Early Nineteenth-Century English Novels," Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, March 2000.

"A Crisis of Form in Newgate Novels and the Advent of Detective Fiction," Victorian Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, October 1999; also delivered at South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1999.

"Introduction: Law and Literature," (panel organizer and moderator), Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Duquesne University, April 1999.

"Frankenstein and the Law," Nineteenth-Century Group, Johns Hopkins University, March 1999.

"Victorian Women and Crime Fiction," Research on Women Lecture Series, Women's Studies Department, University of Delaware, Fall 1998.

"Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein," Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, March 1998.

Moderator, "Working Parts," Body Parts/Partial Bodies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 1997.

"Structures for Stories: The Victorian Courthouse and the Form of the Novel in The Pickwick Papers," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Tenth Annual Colloquium, University of Santa Cruz, April 1995. Moderator, panel "Monuments: Rewriting Historical Memory."

"'Mind Your Manners!': The Labor of the Leisured in Emma," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Ninth Annual Colloquium, William and Mary College, April 1994.

Book Reviews

The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel by Daniel Hack (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2005) in Novel 39 (Fall 2005): 135-37

Victorian Soundscapes by John Picker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) in Modern Philology 102 (November 2004): 285-89.

British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830 by Miranda J. Burgess (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000) in Nineteenth-Century Literature 56 (December 2001): 427-9.

The Politics of Family in Dickens by Catherine Waters (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997) in Victorian Studies 42 (Spring 2000): 507-9.

Teaching Appointments

Associate Professor, UCLA (2002-present)
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware (1997-2002)
Lecturer, College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1997
Teaching Fellow in English, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-94
Teaching Assistant in English, University of Pennsylvania, 1991-92

Awards and Honors

• "Alibis" in Raritan selected as a "Notable Essays of 2004" by The Best American Essays, 2005 (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) eds. Orlean and Atwan.
• UCLA Senate Grants (2002-08)
• International Travel Grant, University of Delaware (2000, 2001)
• General University Research Grant, University of Delaware (1998, 2002 declined)
• Diane Hunter Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in English, University of Pennsylvania (1997)
• Mellon Dissertation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (1995-96)
• University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1994-95)
• B.A. Magna Cum Laude (highest distinction awarded), Brown University (1989)
• Phi Beta Kappa (1989 )
• Rose Writing Fellow, Brown University (1987-89)

Selected University and Professional Service

UCLA (2002-present)

UCLA English Nineteenth-Century Group founder and faculty organizer, 2002-present. English Department Executive Committee (2005-06); Personel Committee (2005-07); English Reading Room Committee (2005-07); Ad-hoc Continuing Appointment Committee (2006); Americanist Search Committee (2006). Graduate student summer mentorship (2 advisees, 2005); Athenaeum respondent (2005), speaker (2008); graduate and undergraduate student independent studies advisor (2006, 2004, 2003); panelist, graduate publishing meeting (2003); "The Academic Interview," Career Services, November 2002. Department Honors / Thompson Prize Committee, Spring 2003; Romanticism Search Committee, 2002-03. Dissertation, second reader (PhDs awarded 2005, 2007).

University of Delaware (1997-2002)

Cofounder and organizer, the English Department's 18th- and 19th-century Colloquium, 1998-2002. University Committee on Undergraduate Studies, 2 years; Faculty representative, Arts and Sciences Senate, 1.5 years; English Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, 3 years. Graduate specialty exam examiner & advisor, 3/98, 3/99; comprehensive exam advisor, 2/02; Graduate teacher mentor, Spring 1999; Honors Scholarship examination grader, 3/99; Honors Advisor, 6/99; Undergraduate Humanities Fellows Advisor (Summer 1999);
Honors Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, 1999-2000, 2001; Dissertation reader (Ph.D. 2000).

Professional

Faculty, The Dickens Project, University of Santa Cruz, 2002-present. Graduate seminar co-teacher at Dickens Universe weeklong summer conference: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008. Winter conference faculty, 2007.
Book proposal reviewer, Broadview Press, Oxford, Blackwell.
Consultant reader for essays submitted to Studies in the Novel, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Victorian Studies, PMLA, Dickens Studies Annual.
Advisory Board, Nineteenth-Century Literature.