Michael A. Elliott is an American scholar of

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

and academic administrator. He became the 20th president of

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on August 1, 2022.

Education and career

Elliott received his B.A. from

in 1992 and his Ph.D. from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in 1998 with distinction in English and comparative literature.

Emory University

Elliott joined the

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

faculty in 1998. 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). 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. Elliott also served as Charles Howard Candler Professor of English at Emory. With Priscilla Wald, Elliott edited ''The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume Six: The American Novel 1870–1940''. With Claudia Stokes, he edited ''American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader''. Elliott has also been an editor of '' The Norton Anthology of American Literature''.

President of Amherst College

Elliot became the 20th president of

on August 1, 2022.

Selected works

Books

* ''The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism'' (2002) * ''Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer'' (2007)

Articles

* “‘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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elliott, Michael A. Living people American university and college faculty deans Presidents of Amherst College Emory University faculty Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Amherst College alumni Year of birth missing (living people)