Nick Bromell

Bromell was born in rural Virginia. 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, where he specialized in American antebellum literature and culture and American intellectual history and popular culture. In 1987, Bromell joined the English faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a former president of the New England chapter of the American Studies Association. ==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. 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). He has written for Salon and contributed articles on abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Scooter Libby to The American Scholar. 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. 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. Bromell has been an affiliate scholar of the Center for American Progress. ==References==