Kenneth Gross (scholar)
Kenneth Gross (born April 2, 1954) is an American scholar whose work ranges from early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Shakespeare, to modern poetry and fiction; he is the Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rochester.{{cite web |last1=Alhart |first1=Valerie |title=Scholar Kenneth Gross named first holder of Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professorship in English |url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/scholar-kenneth-gross-named-first-holder-of-alan-f-hilfiker-distinguished-professorship-in-english/ |website=News Center |publisher=University of Rochester |access-date=18 December 2023 |date=8 April 2014}} After undergraduate study at Hamilton College,{{cite web |title=Bookshelf |url=https://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/p/em-dangerous-children-on-seven-novels-and-a-story-em-by-kenneth-gross-76/view |website=Hamilton College |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}} he earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University in 1982. His research has been supported by grants from the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,{{cite web |title=Kenneth Gross |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/kenneth-gross/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}} the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Berlin,{{cite web |title=Kenneth Gross |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/kenneth-gross/ |website=American Academy in Berlin |access-date=18 December 2023}} and the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2010 he received the Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 2012, he was awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his book Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life.{{cite web |last1=Alhart |first1=Valerie |title=Kenneth Gross Receives Award for Dramatic Criticism |url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/kenneth-gross-receives-award-for-dramatic-criticism/ |website=News Center |access-date=18 December 2023 |date=18 December 2012}}{{cite web |title=Two critics win George Jean Nathan Award {{!}} Cornell Chronicle |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/12/two-critics-win-george-jean-nathan-award |website=news.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
Works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=a1uVEAAAQBAJ Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story (2022)]
- (as editor) [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo23467786.html John Hollander - The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History]
- (as editor) [https://books.google.com/books?id=8SY0DwAAQBAJ On Dolls]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=9kzyqQwRe2EC Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life (2011)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=0gjHywUcpMEC Shylock Is Shakespeare (2006)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=pKakkIflmqMC Shakespeare's Noise (2001)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=SxSbDwAAQBAJ The Dream of the Moving Statue (1992)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=gdoKAQAAMAAJ Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic (1985)]
References
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External links
- [https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/gross_kenneth/index.html Faculty Profile at University of Rochester]
- [https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/dangerous-children-in-fiction-kenneth-gross-556012/ When fictional children become stranger things]
- [https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2022/10/18/on-dangerous-children-a-guest-post-from-kenneth-gross.html On Dangerous Children, a Guest Post from Kenneth Gross]
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Category:American literary critics
Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:20th-century American writers