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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)

References

  1. "Rob Nixon". Department of English.
  2. "Rob Nixon" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  3. Wagstaff, Steel (August 30, 2011). "Rob Nixon's Home Page". www.english.wisc.edu.
  4. "Professor Rob Nixon wins American Book Award | College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison". ls.wisc.edu. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  5. "Harold & Margaret Sprout Award". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  6. "Book award recognizes work on environmental justice, 'slow violence' | ASU News". news.asu.edu. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  7. "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
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  10. Malak, Amin (May 15, 1992). "London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 38 (4): 969–970 – via Project MUSE.
  11. Sprinker, Michael (May 15, 1992). "London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (review)". Minnesota Review. 38 (1): 109–111 – via Project MUSE.
  12. Mustafa, Fawzia (February 15, 1995). "London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin . Rob Nixon". Modern Philology. 92 (3): 397–399. doi:10.1086/392262 – via CrossRef.
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  14. "Gale - Product Login". galeapps.gale.com.
  15. Colleran, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Marie) (May 15, 1996). "Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 42 (1): 211–213 – via Project MUSE.