After graduating from Belmont University, he spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. He holds an M.A. from The College of William and Mary, and he received his Ph.D. from The George Washington University. Dr. Nixon has published essays on the lives and works of Walker Percy, Kate Chopin, Eudora Welty, Herman Melville, Klaus Mann, Arturo Islas, Gertrude Stein, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Dr. Nixon’s translated and edited collection, Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann, was released in 2016.