Instructor Biography: Nicholas Birns | |
NICHOLAS BIRNS is an adjunct instructor at NYU, has taught at several other institutions in the New York area, and has lectured abroad in Sweden, Australia, and China. He covers classic and contemporary fiction as well as the major works of Western and world literature, on which he has written many books and articles, most recently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (Cambridge University Press) and authoring The Hyperlocal In Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space (Lexington). He has contributed to The New York Times Book Review, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Language Quarterly, Partial Answers, and Studies in Romanticism. | |
Other classes taught | |
85th Anniversary Afternoon of Learning | |
A Brilliant Brazilian: The Novels of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | |
A Modern Family Saga: Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks | |
A Modernist Family Saga: D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow | |
A Refugee By Fate: Shadi Bartsch’s Translation of the Aeneid | |
A Vietnamese American Epic: the Novels of Viet Thanh Nguyen | |
Beowulf in Two Translations and One Retelling | |
Bob Dylan and the American Voice | |
Franz Kafka's Short Stories | |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment | |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | |
George Eliot’s Middlemarch | |
Going Home: Emily Wilson’s Translation of Homer’s Odyssey | |
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick | |
Homer's Iliad and Two Modern Spinoffs | |
James Joyce’s Ulysses | |
Joseph Conrad: Mariner and Modern | |
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote | |
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoyevsky’s Tale of Crime and Redemption | |
The Great Gatsby: A Centenary Reappraisal | |
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