Rob Nixon

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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 2012 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, [6] and the 2013 ASLE Scholarly Book Award . [7]

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  1. "Rob Nixon". Department of English.
  2. http://www.english.wisc.edu/rdnixon/files/CV.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. http://www.english.wisc.edu/rdnixon/ [ bare URL ]
  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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  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.