He left New Haven in 2004 to become President of Duke University, succeeding Nan Keohane. In 2003, Brodhead was named a defendant along with, Richard Levin, Linda Lorimer in a lawsuit by Yale professor James Van de Velde claiming damage of reputation after Van de Velde was accused of murdering Suzanne Jovin, a female student, and Brodhead subsequently canceled his class citing his presence as a "major distraction." In 2007, A Connecticut Judge reopened Velde's lawsuit against Brodhead et al. He has lectured widely in universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.Īs dean and as a professor supervising graduate students, Brodhead was involved in the controversy surrounding efforts by graduate student-employees ( GESO) to unionize he was accused of attempting to blacklist unionist students. Brodhead won the DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching at Yale and spent eight summers teaching high school teachers at the Bread Loaf School at Middlebury, Vermont. His scholarly work has been honored by election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty, among others. Levin, Brodhead oversaw a major curricular review at Yale.Īn expert in 19th-century American literature, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles W.
He was appointed Dean of Yale College in 1993 and served until 2004.
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By 1985, he had been made a full professor and was named chair of the English department as Bird White Housum Professor of English. In 1980, he received tenure and was named Director of Undergraduate Studies in English. in 1972, Brodhead was appointed an assistant professor of English at Yale. He met his wife, Cynthia Degnan, while both were graduate students at Yale.īrodhead received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1968, a Master of Philosophy in 1970, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, all in English from Yale University. After graduation from college, he continued at Yale for graduate school and earned a Ph.D. During his senior year at Yale, he was tapped for membership in the secret society Manuscript and a member of the Elizabethan Club. He went on to attend Phillips Academy, where his high school classmates included Dick Wolf and George W. His family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when he was six years old, where he attended public schools. Richard Halleck Brodhead (born April 17, 1947) is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina from 2004 to 2017.īrodhead was born April 17, 1947, in Dayton, Ohio.
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