Rob Nixon

Rob Nixon is a South African author.

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. Nixon teaches environmental studies, postcolonial studies, creative nonfiction, African literature, world literature, and twentieth century British literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Books

 * London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford)
 * Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge)
 * Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador)
 * Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard)