Irena Grudzinska Gross
Literary and Cultural TheoristCES Affiliate
Contact Information
Phone:(617) 358-2201
E-Mail: iggross@bu.edu
Biographical Information
Gross is executive director of the Institute for Human Sciences and a professor of modern foreign languages at Boston University. A graduate of Columbia University (1982), she taught at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Studies at Emory University and taught comparative literature at New York University. Her books include Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky (just published in Polish, with an English-language version forthcoming) and The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic Imagination (1991), which appeared in four languages. She has edited several books on literature and the transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe and is the author of over forty book chapters and articles published on these subjects in the international press. From 1998–2003, she was responsible for the East-Central European program at the Ford Foundation.
