Nick Bromell
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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.
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.
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]
