Dr. Ira B. Nadel

Professor Ira Nadel has written extensively on 19th-century authors such as Pater, Trollope, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Queen Victoria. His book, "Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form" has been praised as one of the best modern examinations of biography as a literary genre and for the 'altogether new level' to which it raises discussion of biography. He has also written on North American Jewish writers, on Canadian writers and on the literary modernists. His "Joyce and the Jews" has been exceptionally well received for its historical and cultural breadth, its convincing argument, and its scrupulously objective scholarship. He has just completed a major biography of Leonard Cohen and is beginning a biography of the American poet Louis Zukofsky. He has published additional biographies of Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Leon Uris and Philip Roth. His critical studies include Modernism’s Second Act, Love and Russian Literature, Singapore Flings, Literary Stopovers from Chekhov to Tagore and, most recently, The American Sentence: from Pulpit to Pulp Fiction.