Professor David Wyatt Appointed to Professor Emeritus
June 28, 2022
Congratulatiions Professor Wyatt on the Appointment!
Professor David Wyatt was just appointed to Professor Emeritus. This achievement speaks to his many years of exemplary service and outstanding contributions as a scholar and teacher to the department, university, and profession.
David Wyatt has taught and written about twentieth-century American literature. Born and raised in California, he has also published two books about the history and literature of his native state, The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California, and Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California.
In 2010, Wyatt published Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature. When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a book reflecting his ongoing interest in the fate of the Sixties generation, was published in 2014. Hemingway, Style, and the Art of Emotion appeared in 2015.