The University of Auckland - Faculty of Arts
 

Prof Brian Boyd
MA (Cant) , PhD (Tor) , NZFAH , FRSNZ

Distinguished Professor

Department:
English

Email:
b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz

Extension:
87480 (ph + 64 9 373 7599)

Location:
Arts 1 Building
14a Symonds St
Room 405



Research Interests

Narrative, evolution and cognitaion; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabakov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.

Current Research

Nabokov

Annotations to Ada (ongoing, The Nabokovian, 1993 - ) : and on the Internet as ADAonline, http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/

Edition of John Shade's poem "Pale Fire," with R.S. Gwynn (forthcoming, Ginkgo Press, 2010)

Co-editor, with Olga Voronina and Dmitri Nabokov, Letters to Véra, forthcoming Harcourt, 2010

Co-editor, with Stanislav Shvabrin,  Lectures on Russian Poetry and Drama (2 vols)

Editor, Speak, Memory (forthcoming: Pléiade)

Literature and evolution

Evolution, Literature and Film: A Reader, co-edited with Joseph Carroll and Jonathan Gottschall, forthcoming, Columbia University Press, 2010

On the Ends of Stories: Literature and Evolution, Harvard University Press, 2012.

Popper

Karl Popper: A Life (in preparation)


Recent Publications

On the Origins of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

Current Teaching


English
Course Title   Availability in 2010
ENGLISH 111     Literature From Sonnets to Comics   Semester 2
ENGLISH 241     Literature and Science   Semester 2



 
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