Rob Nixon

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 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)