Ira Nadel
Ira Bruce Nadel is an AmericanCanadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. He has written books on the twentiethcentury Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on JewishAmerican authors. He has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces. He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.
Nadel was born on July 22, 1943 in Rahway, New Jersey, the son of Isaac David and Francis Nadel. He received a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967 from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and a PhD in English in 1970 from Cornell University. He joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1977, and then to professor of English in 1985. He was chair of the Department of English graduate program from 1992 to 1995. As of 2004, he was a coeditor of the David Mamet Review, an advisory board member of The Journal of Modern Literature and Joyce Studies Annual, and an editorial board member of English Literature in Transition and AutobiographicalBiographical Studies. He is known in British Columbia as a longserving book critic for CBC Radios afternoon show.
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