Nicholas Birns is Professor of English at the New School, New York. He is a leading scholar of Australian literature and editor of Antipodes, the publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies.
Birns is co-editor, with Robert Dixon, of Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories (Sydney University Press, 2010), "Does Idealism Preclude Heroism? Shirley Hazzard's United Nations Writings" in Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays (Sydney University Press, 2014), and many other publications in Australia and internationally.