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 served as president of the American Association of University Professors from 2006 to 2012 and is known for his activism on faculty unionization, academic freedom, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nelson has authored or edited over 35 books and more than 300 essays on modern poetry, literary theory, Marxism, and higher education.