Jonathan Hamilton Grossman (born April 17, 1967) is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Grossman's first book, The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002.
Charles Dickens's Networks: Public transport and the Novel (Oxford), his second book, examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding that revolution.
Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens, this study looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.
Grossman's academic interests include the history, form, and sociology of the novel, and narrative and temporality.