EMORY ELLIOTT

IN MEMORIAM

1942 - 2009

Emory Elliott, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and a University Professor in the UC system, died of a heart attack March 31 in his Riverside home. He was 66. 

A memorial will be held on UC Riverside's campus on June 1 from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the University Theatre. For more information, please click here to see the PDF-flyer or contact Susan Beals, Assistant to the Dean, (951) 827-2762, susan.beals@ucr.edu.

There will be a two-date scholarly conference in Emory's honor in the Winter of 2010. Details will be announced in the future.

Emory Elliott, University Professor and Professor of English at UC Riverside, served on UCHRI's Board of Governors from 1997-2002, chairing it from 2000-2002. He directed the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside continuously from 1995 to the present, served on the University of California President's Advisory Committee on Research in the Humanities as an at-large member, and most recently was the President of the American Studies Association (2006-7).

Emory has had an enormous impact on shaping the humanities in the broad and American Studies especially  at UC Riverside, across the UC system, nationally and internationally. A mentor to so many of us, a dear friend and colleague, a leader among leaders. He touched deeply with his boundless energy, indomitable spirit, low-key and always wise guiding spirit, substance, and support.

Emory Elliott was Professor of English at University of California, Riverside and was appointed in 2001 as University Professor, a UC title reserved for scholars of international distinction who are also respected as teachers of exceptional ability. He served as Director of the Center for Ideas and Society since 1995. He served as a Fellow and later as Chair of the Board of Governors of the UC Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine from 1997-2002. He joined the UCR faculty in 1989 after teaching at Princeton for many years, where he also chaired the English Department. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England, published by Princeton University Press (1975), and Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, published by Oxford University Press (1982). His American Puritan Literature appears in Volume I of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature (1993). He is also the editor of many other books, including The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988), American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology (1991), and the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991). He is Series Editor of The American Novel (Cambridge University Press) and Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. He has been an NEH, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center Fellow. He won the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award for 1993 and the Rosemary Schraer Award for Humanitarian Service for 1997. 

For more information about Emory Elliiot, please go to the memorial website of the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside. 

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