Brian Boyd (b.1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Boyd emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1957.
Boyd's latest book, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, was released by Belknap Press, HUP, in...
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Brian Boyd (b.1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Boyd emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1957.
Boyd's latest book, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, was released by Belknap Press, HUP, in late May, 2009.
In 1979 Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, in the context of Nabokov’s epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics. That year he took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Auckland (on New Zealand novelist Maurice Gee) before being appointed a lecturer in English there in 1980. Véra Nabokov, Nabokov’s widow, in 1979 invited Boyd to catalog her husband’s archives, a task he completed in 1981. That year he also began...
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