Michael A. Elliott

Summary

Michael A. Elliott is an American scholar of English literature and academic administrator. He became 20th president of Amherst College on August 1, 2022.[1][2]

Michael A. Elliott
20th President of Amherst College
Assumed office
August 1, 2022
Preceded byBiddy Martin
Personal details
EducationAmherst College (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)

Education and career edit

Elliott received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1992 and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998 with distinction in English and comparative literature.[3]

Elliott joined the Emory University faculty in 1998, upon graduating from Columbia.[1] He held a number of administrative posts since joining Emory: he was senior associate dean for faculty (2009–2014), followed by executive associate dean (2014–2015), and interim dean (2016–2017).[1] From 2017 to 2022, he was dean of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. As dean of Emory College, Elliott led initiatives aimed at diversifying the college faculty and student body and increasing funding for undergraduate research and professional development. He also ran the largest fundraising campaign in Emory College and university history.[1]

Elliott also served as Charles Howard Candler Professor of English at Emory.[4]

Scholarship edit

Elliott's scholarship focused on American literature and culture during the 19th and 20th centuries.[3] His books include

  • The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism (2002)[5]
  • Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (2007), which explored how the contested and fractious legacies of Custer and the Indian Wars continue to symbolize of America's violent past and provide a key to understanding the nation’s multicultural present.[6]

His articles and book reviews include

  • “‘This Indian Bait’: Samson Occom and the Voice of Liminality.” Early American Literature, vol. 29, no. 3, 1994, pp. 233–53.
  • Review of Northeastern Indian Lives, edited by Robert S. Grumet, Biography, vol. 20, no. 3, 1997, pp. 350–53.
  • “Ethnography, Reform, and the Problem of the Real: James Mooney’s Ghost-Dance Religion”, American Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 2, 1998, pp. 201–33.
  • Review of That the People Might Live: Native American Literature and Native American Community, by Jace Weaver, American Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 1998, pp. 900–01.
  • “Telling the Difference: Nineteenth-Century Legal Narratives of Racial Taxonomy”, Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 3, 1999, pp. 611–36.
  • Review of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology, by Scott Michaelsen, Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 3, 2000, pp. 92–95.
  • Review of Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, by Michele Birnbaum, South Atlantic Review, vol. 69, no. 3/4, 2004, pp. 129–31.
  • “Indian Patriots on Last Stand Hill”, American Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 4, 2006, pp. 987–1015.
  • Review of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel, by Sean Kicummah Teuton, The Journal of American History, vol. 95, no. 4, 2009, pp. 1247–48.
  • “Indians, Incorporated.” American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2007, pp. 141–59.
  • “Other Times: Herman Melville, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Ethnographic Writing in the Antebellum United States”, Criticism, vol. 49, no. 4, 2007, pp. 481–503.
  • “Our Memorials, Ourselves”, American Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011, pp. 229–40.
  • Review of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, by Ari Kelman, The Journal of American History, vol. 100, no. 3, 2013, pp. 798–800.
  • “Not over: The Nineteenth-Century Indian Wars”, Reviews in American History, vol. 44, no. 2, 2016, pp. 277–83.

With Priscilla Wald, Elliott edited The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume Six: The American Novel 1870–1940.[7] With Claudia Stokes, he edited American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.[8] Elliott has also been an editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.[3][9]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Emory College Dean Michael A. Elliott named president of Amherst College | Emory University | Atlanta GA". news.emory.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  2. ^ Pecci, Rose (June 1, 2022). "Amherst College picks Emory dean as its next president". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Michael A. Elliott '92, Professor of English and Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, is Named 20th President of Amherst College | Press Releases | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  4. ^ "Charles Howard Candler Professors | Emory University | Atlanta GA". provost.emory.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  5. ^ Elliott, Michael A. (2002). The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism. University of Minnesota Press. Reviews:
    • Archuleta, Elizabeth (Fall 2004). American Literary Realism. 37 (1): 87–88. JSTOR 27747155.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Glazener, Nancy (September 2003). "Review". American Literature. 75 (3): 656–658. doi:10.1215/00029831-75-3-656. S2CID 146744150.
    • Jirousek, Lori (April 2004). "The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism". The Journal of Popular Culture. 37 (4): 729–731. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2004.096_6.x. ProQuest 195366307.
    • Strohm, Kiven (2006). Anthropologie et Sociétés. 30 (2): 237. doi:10.7202/014122ar.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ^ Elliott, Michael A. (2008). Custerology. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/9780226201481 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISBN 978-0-226-20148-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link) Reviews:
    • Allmendinger, Blake (November 2009). Pacific Historical Review. 78 (4): 635–636. doi:10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.635. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.635.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Brooks, Joanna (September 2008). American Literature. 80 (3): 611–613. doi:10.1215/00029831-2008-024.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Browne, Ray B. (March 2009). The Journal of American Culture. 32 (1): 81. ProQuest 200619764.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dippie, Brian W. (316). History. 94 (4). JSTOR 24429102.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Huhndorf, Shari M. (December 2008). The American Historical Review. 113 (5): 1551–1552. JSTOR 30223540.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hutton, Paul Andrew (December 2008). The Journal of American History. 95 (3): 934–935. doi:10.2307/27694535. JSTOR 27694535.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Larson, Robert W. (Spring 2009). "New views on Custer and the Indian wars". Great Plains Quarterly. 29 (2): 141–145. JSTOR 23534118.
    • McMurtry, Larry (March 6, 2008). "He went against the peace pipe". The New York Review of Books.
    • Paul, R. Eli (Spring 2009). Western Historical Quarterly. 40 (1): 105–106. doi:10.1093/whq/40.1.105. JSTOR 40505634.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ream, Todd C. (Winter 2008). Montana The Magazine of Western History. 58 (4): 81–82. JSTOR 25485766.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Urwin, Gregory J. W. (Winter 2008–2009). On Point. 14 (3): 54. JSTOR 26359788.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^ Wald, Priscilla; Elliott, Michael A., eds. (2014). The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume Six: The American Novel 1870-1940. Oxford University Press. Review:
    • Coit, E. (September 2014). The Review of English Studies. 66 (274): 392–394. doi:10.1093/res/hgu084. JSTOR 24541253.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ Elliott, Michael A.; Stokes, Claudia, eds. (2003). American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. New York University Press. Review:
    • Fluck, Winfried (Fall 2004). Clio. 34 (1–2): 229–235, 246. ProQuest 221594662.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ^ "The Norton Anthology of American Literature". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2022-06-23.


Academic offices
Preceded by President of Amherst College
2022 – present
Succeeded by
Incumbent