David Bromwich
Encyclopedia
Career
Having graduated from Yale with a B.A. in 1973 and a Ph.D. four years later, he became an instructor at Princeton UniversityPrinceton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, where he was promoted to Mellon Professor of English before returning to Yale in 1988. From 1995 he served as the Housum Professor of English at Yale. In 2006 he became Sterling Professor
Sterling Professor
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field...
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Bromwich is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
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Works
Bromwich has published on Romantic and twentieth-century anglophone poetry, film, eighteenth-century moral philosophy, the history of ideas, and the role of higher education. His book Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking defends the ideals of liberal education against political encroachments from both Left and Right. Currently, he is writing an intellectual biography of Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
Edmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party....
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Bromwich reviews for The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
, The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
, The London Review of Books, and many other U.S. and British journals.
Miscellaneous books
- (Editor) Romantic Critical Essays (Cambridge English Prose Texts). Cambridge University Press, 1988.