Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on Holocaust poetry and other subjects. He is author or editor of 30 books and the author of 300 articles. A former national president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), he has been fighting the campaign to boycott Israel since 2007. Last year he toured Israel giving lectures, radio interviews, and television appearances about BDS.