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==Professional career==
Early on in his career he focused on early American Literature, publishing two seminal works on the topic: ''Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England'' in 1975 and ''Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic'' in 1982. In 1988, he edited the controversial and groundbreaking Columbia Literary History of the United States, the first major multicultural anthology of American literature.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}}
According to reports in the New York Times, Elliott, along with [[Valerie Smith]], [[Margaret Doody]], and [[Sandra Gilbert]] all resigned from Princeton in 1989.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/10/nyregion/4-scholars-quit-as-sex-incident-splits-princeton.html</ref> The reports suggest that the four were unhappy with the leniency shown to [[Thomas McFarland]] after he was accused of sexual misconduct. McFarland was initially put on a one-year suspension, but eventually took early retirement after these resignations and threats of student boycotts.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/27/nyregion/accused-princeton-professor-to-retire-early.html</ref>
He joined [[University of California, Riverside]] in 1989, and in 2001 was named a [[University Professor]], a designation of a small number (36) top scholars and teachers in the [[University of California]] system that grants them access to all campuses.<ref name=UCRObit>{{cite news|title=UC Riverside Distinguished Professor Emory Elliott Died Tuesday|date=April 1, 2009|accessdate=April 4, 2009|work=[[University of California, Irvine]]|url=http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2047}}</ref>
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