Margaret Boe Birns is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University, and Adjunct Associate Professor of literature at The New School. She has published chapters in Roberto Bolaño: A Less-Distant Star edited by Ignacio Lopez-Caldo and in Harold Bloom’s Agatha Christie: Modern Critical Views, and articles in The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Women’s Studies, The Dreiser Encyclopedia, A Critical Companion to Henry James, Studies in American Naturalism, Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Compendium of Twentieth Century Novelists and Novels, and Magill’s Literary Annual. Margaret specializes in English, American, and European literature of the 20th-21st century, the mystery novel, contemporary world literature, the short story, and the nineteenth century novel.  She was given an award for Excellence in Teaching, SPS, New York University, 1985.