Edwin Sill Fussell, Ph.D. (July 4, 1922 – August 27, 2002) was a professor of English literature at the University of California, San Diego.
[1] His father, Paul Longstreth Fussell (15 January 1895 – 16 July 1973), was a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers.
Thereafter he joined the U.S. Navy, serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
He refused to sign a loyalty oath during the era of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's "communist-hunting" in the early 1950s, losing his professorship as a result.
After teaching at the Claremont Graduate School, Fussell joined the faculty of UC San Diego.