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Nick Bromell (born 1950) is an American author and educator in the field of intellectual history. [1] He is the professor of American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. In his writing and research, he specializes in media and public opinion, race and ethnicity, and democracy and governance. [2] He was the founding editor of the political and literary magazine Boston Review .

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Bromell's work has been published in numerous academic and literary journals, and he has also written articles for mainstream publications such as The Boston Globe , Harper's , and Salon . He is the author of the books By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum American Culture (1992), Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (2000), and The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy (2013). His book The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass is due for publication in 2021.

Education and career

Bromell was born in rural Virginia. [3] He graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts with a B.A. in classics and philosophy. He received a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Stanford University in California, [4] where he specialized in American antebellum literature and culture and American intellectual history and popular culture. [3]

He went on to teach at Harvard and Princeton universities. [3] In 1980, he became the founding editor of the relaunched Boston Review . [5]

In 1987, Bromell joined the English faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst. [4] He is a former president of the New England chapter of the American Studies Association. [1]

Works

Bromell's research work has been published in many academic journals, including American Quarterly , American Literary History , American Literature , Journal of the Society for American Music , and Political Theory . [1] He is the author of three books: By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 1992); [6] Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2013). [2] He also edited the book of essays A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). [7]

He has written for Salon [8] and contributed articles on abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Scooter Libby to The American Scholar . [9] His articles and essays have also appeared in The Boston Globe , Harper's , Raritan , The Sewanee Review , and The Georgia Review , and online at AlterNet. [1] In February 2003, Bromell was among the guests discussing psychedelic drugs on the Infinite Mind radio show, presented by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. [10] In 2008, he was one of the three panelists at a public forum held at Stanford's Kresge Auditorium to discuss the influence of the Beatles and their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"), 40 years after its release. [11]

Bromell has been an affiliate scholar of the Center for American Progress. [9] In 2016, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of American literature. [1] [4] At that time, he was also named a 2016–17 fellow of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard. [4] As of 2016, he was writing a book about Douglass's political philosophy. [1] Titled The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, the book is due to be published by Duke University Press in February 2021. [12]

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  7. ↑ A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois. hfsbooks.com. March 16, 2018. ISBN   978-0-8131-7490-7 . Retrieved August 1, 2020.
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  11. ↑ Stanford Report (February 13, 2008). "Forum to be held for 40th birthday of White Album". news.stanford.edu . Retrieved August 1, 2020.
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