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]
Books
London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford)[4][5][6][7][8]
Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge)[9][10][11]
Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador)
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard)
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]
Books
London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford)[4][5][6][7][8]
Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge)[9][10][11]
Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador)
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard)