in 1973 and a Ph.D. four years later, Bromwich became an instructor at Princeton University, where he was promoted to Mellon Professor of English before returning to Yale in 1988.
[4][5] He was a frequent critic of the Obama administration's caution and failure to achieve more of the Democratic party's policy agenda.
He criticized the 2011 State of the Union Address for a lack of focus on gun control and immigration and for rhetorical concessions to conservative ideology.
[6] In 2014, he criticized the "disengagement" of the administration, saying that President Barack Obama "watches the world as its most important spectator.
More recently, Bromwich has criticized the American stance on Ukraine for protracting the war with Russia and avoiding diplomacy.