{"id":4,"date":"2020-08-19T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/iranadel\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:16:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/iranadel\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ira B. Nadel<\/strong> (BA, MA Rutgers; PhD Cornell), Professor of English, specializes in biography, the Victorians and such Modernists as Joyce, Pound and Beckett.\u00a0 He is the author of Biography, Fiction Fact & Form<\/em> (1984), Joyce and the Jews<\/em>(1989), Leonard Cohen, A Life in Art <\/em>\u00a0(1994), Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen<\/em> (1996; 2006), Double Act, A Life of Tom Stoppard<\/em> (2000), Ezra Pound, A Literary Life<\/em> (2004), Joyce and His Publishers <\/em>(2005) and The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound <\/em>(2007). More recently, David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre<\/em> (2008) and, with Donald MacDonald, The Golden Gate Bridge, History and Design of an Icon<\/em> (2008) appeared.<\/p>\n

He has edited The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson<\/em> (1993); The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound<\/em>(1999) and Ezra Pound,<\/em> Early Writings, Poems and Prose<\/em> (2005), as well as Wilkie Collins\u2019 formerly lost first novel, Iolani; or, Tahiti as it Was<\/em> (1999) and Collins\u2019 The Dead Secret<\/em> (1997). His edition of The Education of Henry Adams <\/em>appeared in 1999. With F.S. Schwarzbach he edited, Victorian Artists and The City <\/em>(1980), <\/em>with S. Neuman, Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature<\/em> (1988) with Peter Buitenhuis, George Orwell: A Reassessment <\/em>(1988) and with W.E. Fredeman, Victorian Novelists Before 1885 <\/em>\u00a0and Victorian Novelists After 1885<\/em> (1983). With W.E. Fredeman and John Stasny, he edited The Victorian Muse<\/em> (1989) in 39 vols. Earlier, he edited Victorian Fiction, A Collection of Essays from the Period <\/em>\u00a0(1986) and\u00a0 Victorian Biography, A Collection of Essays from the Period <\/em>\u00a0(1986). \u00a0In 2005 he published the Canadian Edition of Style, 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace<\/em> with Joseph M. Williams.<\/p>\n

His biography Leon Uris, Life of a Bestseller<\/em>,\u00a0 and the collection Ezra Pound in Context\u00a0 <\/em>both appeared in 2010. His Critical Companion to Philip Roth\u00a0 <\/em>appeared in 2011, as well as (with Donald MacDonald) Alcatraz, History and Design of an Icon. <\/em>His article “Boxing with Brecht: David Mamet and Bertolt Brecht” was published in the Journal of\u00a0 Dramatic Theory and Criticism <\/em>vol.xxvi [2011].<\/p>\n

Ira Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and winner of the 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography. He has also been awarded a Killam Research Prize, Mellon and Dorot Fellowships at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale. He was recently awarded the UBC Dean of Arts Prize (2019-2020).\u00a0He has lectured in England, Israel, Italy, China, Germany, Monaco, Ireland, the U.S. and, of course, Canada.<\/p>\n

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