David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.
Education
Having graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and a Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
In 1995 he was appointed as Housum Professor of English at Yale. In 2006 he became a Sterling Professor. He has published widely on Romantic criticism and poetry, and on eighteenth-century politics and moral philosophy.
He is a frequent contributor of political blog posts on the Huffington Post.
Bromwich argued forcefully against American intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Politics
Bromwich argued forcefully against American intervention in the Syrian conflict. He has been 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.
In 2014, he criticized the "disengagement" of the administration, saying that President Obama "watches the world as its most important spectator.".
Membership
American Academy of Arts and Letters.