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This article is about the American academic. For the American meteorologist, see David H. Bromwich.

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.[1]

Career

After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in 1973 and a Ph.D. four years later, Bromwich became an instructor at Princeton University, where he was promoted to Mellon Professor of English before returning to Yale in 1988.[2] In 1995 he was appointed Housum Professor of English at Yale. In 2006 he became a Sterling Professor.

Bromwich is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on Romantic criticism and poetry, and on eighteenth-century politics and moral philosophy. His book Politics by Other Means concerns the role of critical thinking and tradition in higher education, and defends the practice of liberal education against political encroachments from both Left and Right. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other U.S. and British journals. He is a frequent contributor of political blog posts on the Huffington Post. Since 2017, he has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Bromwich's collection of essays Skeptical Music was awarded the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay in 2002.[3]

Political views

Bromwich argued against American intervention in the Syrian conflict.[4][5]

He was a frequent critic of the Obama administration's caution and failure to achieve more of the Democratic party's policy agenda. He criticized the 2011 State of the Union Address for a lack of focus on gun control and immigration and for rhetorical concessions to conservative ideology.[6] In 2014, he criticized the "disengagement" of the administration, saying that President Barack Obama "watches the world as its most important spectator."[7] In July 2020, Bromwich was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."

More recently, Bromwich has criticized the American stance on Ukraine for protracting the war with Russia and avoiding diplomacy.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "David Bromwich appointed Sterling Professor of English". Yale Bulletin & Calendar. 34 (29). May 19, 2006. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
  2. ^ "English Dept. Faculty & Staff » David Bromwich". english.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-06-13. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. ^ "2002 Literary Awards Winners". PEN. 2 November 2012. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  4. ^ David Bromwich (2013). "Stay Out of Syria!". The New York Review of Books. 60 (11). Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  5. ^ "On Monsterphilia and Assad". Guernica. 24 October 2013.
  6. ^ Bromwich, David (January 28, 2011). "Obama, Incorporated". New York Review of Book Blog. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
  7. ^ Bromwich, David (3 July 2014). "The World's Most Important Spectator". London Review of Books. 36 (13): 3–6. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
  8. ^ Bromwich, David (2022-08-29). "The Planet Can't Survive the Business of War". commondreams.org. Retrieved 2022-08-23.

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