The Environmental Humanities and Public Writing: An Interview with Rob Nixon

Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson and Elizabeth Ritzmann Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. He is author of four books, most recently Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which was selected by Choice as an outstanding book of 2011. Slow Violence has received numerous prizes: an American Book Award, the 2012 Sprout prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies, the 2012 Interdisciplinary Humanities Award for the best book to straddle disciplines in the humanities, and the 2013 biennial asle Award for the best book in environmental literary studies. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, the Guardian, the Nation, London Review of Books, the Village Voice, Slate, Truthout, Huffington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, Critical Inquiry, South Atlantic Quarterly, Public Culture, Cultural Studies, New Formations, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. He has published over a hundred essays and book chapters in the fields of environmental studies, postcolonial studies, and nonfiction and has delivered lectures on six continents. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim, an neh, a Fulbright, and a MacArthur Foundation International Peace and Security Fellowship.