Emory Elliott

Elliott came from a working-class background in Baltimore, Md., and was the first in his family to earn a college degree. After earning his bachelor's in English from Loyola College on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, he received a master's from Bowling Green State University. He served in the Army at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and was an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., before going on to earn a PhD from the University of Illinois.

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Early on in his career he focused on early American Literature, publishing two seminal works on the topic: Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England in 1975 and Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic in 1982. In 1988, he edited the controversial and groundbreaking Columbia Literary History of the United States, the first major multicultural anthology of American literature.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}}

According to reports in the New York Times, Elliott, along with Valerie Smith, Margaret Doody, and Sandra Gilbert all resigned from Princeton in 1989.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/10/nyregion/4-scholars-quit-as-sex-incident-splits-princeton.html|title = 4 Scholars Quit as Sex Incident Splits Princeton|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 10 May 1989|last1 = King|first1 = Wayne}} The reports suggest that the four were unhappy with the leniency shown to Thomas McFarland after he was accused of sexual misconduct. McFarland was initially put on a one-year suspension, but eventually took early retirement after these resignations and threats of student boycotts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/27/nyregion/accused-princeton-professor-to-retire-early.html|title = Accused Princeton Professor to Retire Early|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 27 May 1989}}

He joined University of California, Riverside in 1989, and in 2001 was named a University Professor, a designation of a small number (36) top scholars and teachers in the University of California system that grants them access to all campuses.{{cite news|title=UC Riverside Distinguished Professor Emory Elliott Died Tuesday|date=April 1, 2009|accessdate=April 4, 2009|work=University of California, Irvine|url=http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2047}}

He directed UC Riverside's Center for Ideas and Society from 1996, enhancing the reputation of the institute and its scope by winning grants from foundations.

His most significant professional appointments were at Princeton University, where he worked for 17 years, serving at various points as the chairman of the American Studies program and the English Department. There he also received the university's Distinguished Service Award for his work on the Women's Studies Program.

He was appointed to many academic societies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He was president of the American Studies Association in 2006–07.

Elliott was married and had five children.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

• 1989 American Book Award for Columbia Literary History of the United States

• {{cite book| title=Global migration, social change, and cultural transformation|editor=Emory Elliott |editor2=Jasmine Payne |editor3=Patricia Ploesch| publisher=Palgrave Macmillan| year= 2007| isbn=978-0-230-60054-6 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7w-oUK6vDMC&q=Emory+Elliott| title=The Cambridge introduction to early American literature| author=Emory Elliott| publisher=Cambridge University Press| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-521-52041-6 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/aestheticsinmult0000unse| url-access=registration| quote=Emory Elliott.| title=Aesthetics in a multicultural age|editor=Emory Elliott |editor2=Louis Freitas Caton |editor3=Jeffrey Rhyne| publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-19-514632-5 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r29tz_PId5sC| title=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn| author=Mark Twain| others=Introduction Emory Elliott| editor=Emory Elliott| publisher=Oxford University Press| year= 1999| isbn= 978-0-19-282441-7 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/columbiahistoryo00elli| url-access=registration| quote=Emory Elliott.| title=The Columbia history of the American novel| others=Introduction Emory Elliott|editor=Emory Elliott |editor2=Cathy N. Davidson| publisher=Columbia University Press| year= 1991| isbn= 978-0-231-07360-8 }}
• {{cite book| title=American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology|editor=Emory Elliott |editor2=Linda K. Kerber |editor3=A. Walton Litz |editor4=Terence Martin| publisher=Prentice Hall| year=1991| isbn=978-0-13-027244-7| url=https://archive.org/details/americanliteratu0000elli}}
• {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/columbialiterary00bant| url-access=registration| quote=Emory Elliott.| title=Columbia literary history of the United States|editor=Emory Elliott |editor2=Martha Banta |editor3=Houston A. Baker| others=Photographer Martha Banta| publisher=Columbia University Press| year= 1988| isbn=978-0-231-05812-4 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmI6avgH0GoC&q=Emory+Elliott| title=Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810| author=Emory Elliott| publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 1986| isbn= 978-0-19-503995-5 }}
• {{cite book| title=American colonial writers, 1606-1734| editor=Emory Elliott| publisher=Gale Research Co.| year= 1984 }}
• {{cite book| title=Puritan influences in American literature| editor=Emory Elliott| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year=1979| isbn=978-0-252-00733-0| url=https://archive.org/details/puritaninfluence0000unse}}

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• [http://www.hastac.org/node/2057 "Emory Elliott, My Friend, 1942-2009", HASTAC, Cathy Davidson, April 02, 2009]

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