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