Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciencesand professor of English at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and an affiliated faculty member at theUniversity of Haifa. Among the 33 books he has authoredor edited are The Case Against Academic Boycotts ofIsrael and Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel.