Benjamin Scott Grossberg
Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

B.A., Rutgers University; M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Houston.

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Main Building, Fourth Floor, South Side
BSG@antioch-college.Edu

Teaching Responsibilities

Poetry writing, English Renaissance Literature, English Poetry

Scholarly Interests

The legacy of Romanticism in contemporary poetry, and literary representations of same sex desire, especially in English Renaissance texts.

Benjamin Grossberg is a writer of literary criticism and poetry. His criticism has appeared in Studies in English Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and The Journal of Homosexuality. These studies explore the construction of same-sex desire in the works of Philip Sidney, Hawthorne, and Coleridge, respectively.

His poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades and Mid-American Review, and in the 2005 edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology. His work is forthcoming in Paris Review, North American Review, and Bellingham Review. His chapbook, The Auctioneer Bangs his Gavel, will come out from Kent State University Press in 2006.

He has been honored by receiving several awards, including a grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. In 2003, he received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council.

Interesting Note

Professor Grossberg lives on a small farm and is in the process of restoring his old farmhouse. He recently planted an apple orchard, mostly Granny Smiths. Apples: 2009.