Ira B. Nadel is Professor of English

English literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

 at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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. He received his BA & MA from Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 and his PhD. from Cornell University

Cornell University

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. Professor Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

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, and has won a number of academic awards.

He has written numerous books, both biographies of major literary figures, and a book about the art of writing biography itself Biography, Fiction Fact & Form (1984). He has prepared scholarly and reading editions of several 19th and 20th century authors and editions of the letters of literary figures. He has specialized to some extent on the major authors Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

 and Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...

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Awards and honors

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,
• UBC Distinguished University Scholar
• 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography
• Killam Research Prize,
• Mellon Fellowship at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
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• Dorot Fellowship at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin,
• Beinecke Fellowship at Yale University
  Yale University
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Biographies and other books

• Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form. London: Macmillan, 1984
• Joyce and the Jews, Culture and Texts. London: Macmillan, 1989
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , His Life as Art. Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1994
• Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Random House, 1996; New York: Pantheon, 1996.
• Double Act, A Life of Tom Stoppard. London: Methuen, 2002; New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.
• Ezra Pound, A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2004.
• Joyce and His Publishers. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2005.
• David Mamet: A Life in the Theater. A & C Black, 2008

Selected academic editions

• Pound, Ezra. The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993.
• Collins, Wilkie. The Dead Secret. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1993.
• Collins, Wilkie. Iolani; or, Tahiti as it Was. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999.
• Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1999.
• Pound, Ezra. Early Writings, Poems and Prose. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Selected teaching editions and collections

• The Victorian Muse ( 1989) in 39 vols.
• Victorian Fiction, A Collection of Essays from the Period (1986)
• Victorian Biography, A Collection of Essays from the Period (1986).
• the Canadian Edition of Style, 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace with Joseph M. Williams
  Joseph M. Williams
  Joseph M. Williams was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.Williams began as a researcher of English language...
  
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Selected Recent peer-reviewed journal articles

• “Science and The Moonstone,” Dickens Studies Annual  11 (1983) 239-59.
• “Canadian Biography and Literary Form,” Essays on Canadian Writing 33 (1986): 144-60.
• “Biography as Cultural Discourse,” Biography and Source Studies, ed. Frederick Karl Vol. 1 (1994): 73-84.
• “Tom Stoppard and The Invention of Biography,” Modern Drama 63 (2000): 157-70.
• “Tom Stoppard: In the Russian Court,” Modern Drama 47 (2004): 500-24.
• "Miss Universe, Mr. Uris, and The Archive,” Ransom Edition 13 (Summer 2006): 8.
• “The American Image of Ezra Pound,” Paideuma 34 (2007) forthcoming.

Selected Recent book chapters

• “Visualizing History: Pound and the Chinese Cantos, A Poem Containing History," Textual Studies in the Cantos, ed. L. Rainey (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997) 151-66.
• “Textual Criticism, Literary Theory and the New Ulysses,” Assessing the 1984 Ulysses, ed. C. George Sandulescu & Clive Hart (Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1986) 122-39.
• “Stoppard and Film,” in The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, ed. Katherine Kelly (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001) 84-103.
• “Biography,” in Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, ed. William H. New. Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Press, 2002. 113-17.
• “Constructing the Orient: Pound’s American Vision,” in Ezra Pound and China, ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2003) 12-30.
• “David Mamet: Life without an Archive,” in Theatre and Autobiography, ed. Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2006) 249- 60.
• “Historicizing Ulysses,” in Ulysses in Critical Perspective, ed. M. Gillespie and A. Nicholas Fargnoli. Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida, 2006. 135-51.

External links

• official publications list at UBC