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

In 1967, Nelson graduated from Antioch College. In 1970, he received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester.[1]

Career

Since the 1990s, Nelson 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."[2]

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.[3]

In 2014, Nelson supported the University of Illinois' decision to withdrawn a job offer to Steven Salaita, an "American studies scholar active in the Israel boycott movement."[4]

Published works

As of 2024, Nelson is an Inside Higher Ed columnist.[5][6] He has published or edited 25 books, including Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left.

Nelson's academic focus is on modern American poetry.[7] He has also published books criticizing boycotts of Israel, including the BDS movement.[8]

Bibliography

  • The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space. University of Illinois Press, 1973. ISBN 978-0252001918
  • 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.[8][9]
  • Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles. Academic Studies Press, 2024. [10]

Notes

  1. ^ "U. of I. English scholar to lead organization of 45,000 professors – News Bureau". Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  2. ^ [1] Cary Nelson.org
  3. ^ [2] www.insidehighered.com, 28 April 2008
  4. ^ Flaherty, Colleen. "'In a Hurricane'". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
  5. ^ "Cary Nelson | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  6. ^ Flaherty, Colleen. "'In a Hurricane'". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  7. ^ "AAUP: Scholar-Activist Cary Nelson Elected AAUP President". Archived from the original on 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "book review". Commentary. August 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom". Academic Studies Press. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
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