Emory Elliott, University Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois

(951) 827-4332
emory.elliott@ucr.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Emory Elliott (B.A. Loyola; M.A. Bowling Green; Ph.D. University of Illinois) joined the UCR faculty in 1989 after teaching at Princeton for many years, where he also chaired the English Department. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England , published by Princeton University Press (1975), and Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic , published by Oxford University Press (1982; rpt. 1986:). His American Puritan Literature , appears in Volume I of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature (1993). He is also the editor of many other books, including The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988), American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology (1991), and the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991). He is Series Editor of The American Novel (Cambridge University Press) and Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction . He has been an NEH, American Council of Learned Studies, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center Fellow, and most recently, a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He won the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award for 1993 and the Rosemary Schraer Award for Humanitarian Service for 1997.  In March 2001, he was approved by the UC Board of Regents as "University Professor."  The UC title of University Professor is reserved for scholars of  international distinction who are also respected as teachers of exceptional ability.