Congratulations to CALA instructor Nicholas Birns for his published piece in the Journal of New Zealand.
Birns’ 2019 CALA course on literature and the 21st century caught the eye of the Journal’s then-editor, Anna Jackson, and won him a spot in the 2020 issue.
His article explores how New Zealand fiction produced in 2005 and 2006 was “the first in that field to fully inhabit the twenty-first century,” responding to globalisation and the question of “white hegemony and privilege.”
Birns is editor of “Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/NZ Literature” and the co-editor of “A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900.”
He is also the author of a number of books, including “Understanding Anthony Powell”, “Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature” and “Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead.”
This Spring, Birns will be teaching several different literature courses at CALA, including Beowulf and the Beginnings of English Literature, Late Victorian and Edwardian Short Fiction, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Fiction and more.