Nicholas B Birns
Nicholas B Birns
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Adjunct Instructor
Center for Publishing, Writing, and Media
Education
BA, Columbia University
PHD, New York University
Nicholas Birns has taught at several institutions in the New York area and lectured abroad in Sweden, Australia, and China. He teaches classic and contemporary fiction and the major works of Western and world literature. He recently coedited The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel and is the author of The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space and The Literary Role of History in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Among his other books are Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory from the 1950s to the Early Twenty-First Century, Understanding Anthony Powell, and Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead. He has contributed articles to The New York Times Book Review as well as Modernism/Modernity, Modern Language Quarterly, Partial Answers, and Studies in Romanticism
Courses
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Dissidents and Dreamers: Modern and Contemporary Jewish-American Fiction
LITR1-CE9003
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Grit and Grace: American Fiction of the 1930s
LITR1-CE9013
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History and the Self: The Fiction of Magda Szabo
LITR1-CE9014
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George Eliot's "Middlemarch" in the 21st Century
LITR1-CE9015
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James Joyce's Dubliners: Revelations of the Modern City
LITR1-CE9038
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Encyclopedic Passion: The Fiction of Olga Tokarczuk
LITR1-CE9041
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Surviving Totalitarianism: Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate and Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise
LITR1-CE9950
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Chronicler of the American West: The Fiction of Wallace Stegner
LITR1-CE9952
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Young Men From the Provinces: Honore de Balzac's Lost Illusions and Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education
LITR1-CE9962
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Two Novels By Dostoevsky: Devils and The Idiot
LITR1-CE9968
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American Fiction of the 1920s
LITR1-CE9976
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The Short Fiction of Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges
LITR1-CE9980
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Two 20th Century Sagas of People and Place: John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Winifred Holtby's South Riding
LITR1-CE9981