Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson (born 1946), is an American professor emeritus of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was president of the American Association of University Professors between 2006 and 2012.
Education
[edit]In 1967, Nelson graduated from Antioch College. In 1970, he received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. His scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry.
Career
[edit]Since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical in 1997. Nelson became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers."[1]
From 2000 to 2006 Nelson was the second vice president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He was elected to a two-year term as president and was re-elected until 2012. In April 2006, Nelson was arrested, along with over 50 others, including Jane Buck, the outgoing president of the AAUP, as part of a unionization effort by New York University's graduate teaching assistants.[2]
In 2014, Nelson supported the University of Illinois' decision to withdrawn a job offer to Steven Salaita, an "American studies scholar active in the Israel boycott movement."[3]
Published works
[edit]He has published or edited twenty five books, including Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. His academic focus is on modern American poetry.[4] He has also published books criticizing boycotts of Israel, including the BDS movement.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]- No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. New York University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8147-5859-5
- The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel (edited, with Gabriel Noah Brahm). Wayne State Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9903316-0-5
- Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State. Indiana University Press, 2019.[5][6]
- Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles. Academic Studies Press, 2024. [7]
Notes
[edit]- ^ [1] Cary Nelson.org
- ^ [2] www.insidehighered.com, 28 April 2008
- ^ Flaherty, Colleen. "'In a Hurricane'". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
- ^ "AAUP: Scholar-Activist Cary Nelson Elected AAUP President". Archived from the original on 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
- ^ a b David Mikics (5 June 2019). "The Big Lie And the toxic BDS professors who tell it (book review)". Tablet. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ "book review". Commentary. August 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom". Academic Studies Press. Academic Studies Press. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
