Rob Nixon

Rachel Carson Professor of English
608-263-3005
rdnixon@wisc.edu

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, Columbia University, 1989
M. Phil., Columbia University, 1984
MA, University of Iowa, 1982
BA, Rhodes University, South Africa 1977

Research Interests

Creative nonfiction; postcolonial literatures; world literature in English; environmentalism and literature; African and Caribbean literatures; Contemporary British literature.

Selected Publications

Dreambirds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food and Fortune (Picador 2000); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and World Beyond (Routledge 1994);  London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (OUP 1992).

My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The TLS, Critical Inquiry, South Atlantic Quarterly and elsewhere.

Personal Statement

My primary concern is to expose students to a wide range of international writing. Key questions I address: memory, migration, and nationalism.