Rob Nixon

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Rob Nixon is a South African author.[1]

Nixon received a B.A. from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 1978. He was awarded an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa in 1982, and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1989.[2] Nixon teaches environmental studies, postcolonial studies, creative nonfiction, African literature, world literature, and twentieth century British literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3] His book "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor" was honored with four awards: an American Book Award,[4] the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association,[5] the 2012 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University,[6] and the 2013 ASLE Scholarly Book Award.[7]

Books

  • London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford)[8][9][10][11][12]
  • Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge)[13][14][15]
  • Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador)
  • Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard)

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