Symposium
& Festival: "The World Republic of Literature"
Lannan Symposium,
April 11-12, 2006
Gonda Theatre, Georgetown University
Rob Nixon
Rob Nixon was born in South Africa. He is the Rachel Carson Professor of English Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of 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).
His 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.