Profile
Rob Nixon is currently the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Nixon received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford University Press); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge); Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador); and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press 2011).
In March 2012, Professor Nixon gave a lecture (Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor) and a workshop (Neoliberalism, Genre, and the Tragedy of the Commons) at the Portland Center for Public Humanities.
For more information, see Professor Nixon's website.
