Jonathan Rose
Professor
History Department
Drew University
United States of America
Biography
Jonathan Rose (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history, and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, and the British Council Prize. He has also published A Companion to the History of the Book (2007), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), The Revised Orwell (1992), British Literary Publishing Houses 1820-1965 (1991), and The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (1986). He is coeditor of the journal Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, and he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph (London). Currently he is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s literary career.
Research Interest
Winston Churchill’s literary caree
Publications
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“Arriving at a History of Reading,†Historically Speaking (January 2004).
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Reinventing Graduate Education in History,†Perspectives on History (February 2009)
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Coeditor (with Simon Eliot), A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell, 2007).
