David Bromwich

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David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.

[edit] Career

Having graduated from Yale with a B.A. in 1973 and a Ph.D. four years later, he became an instructor at Princeton University, 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.

Bromwich is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[edit] 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 Burke.

Bromwich reviews for The New Republic, The London Review of Books, and many other U.S. and British journals.