Matthew Abraham is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. His reserch interests include civic/political rhetoric, postcolonial theory, and the politlcs of academic freedom around the Israel-Palestine conflict. His books include Academic Freedom and the Question of Palestine (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave, 2014). He is the co-editor of The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion (Parlor Press, 2013).