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  • Margaret Boe Birns

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

    Email
    birnsm@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Margaret Boe Birns

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    In addition to her teaching at The New School, Margaret Boe Birns is also Adjunct Assistant Professor, SPS, NYU, where she received an award for Excellence in Teaching. She was also named Finalist for Distinguished University Teaching Award, The New School, 2011.  

    She has given talks or papers at The Harmonie Club, NYUSPS Great Lecture Series, Brotherhood Synagogue, Mint Theater post-performance discussion, Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on World War II, The American Names Society, The Shakespeare Club, and ING Corporation Learning at Lunch Lectures.

    She has published articles on authors including Anthony Powell, Roberto Bolaño, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Susan Sontag, William James, and Henrik Ibsen and has published poetry in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Rolling Stone, Art Times, and Women Poems #3.

    Her areas of teaching expertise include: English, American, and European Literature of the 20th-21st Century; The Mystery Novel; Contemporary English and American Literature; Contemporary World Literature; The Short Story; and The Nineteenth Century Novel (English, American, European).


    Current Courses

    Agatha Christie
    NLIT 3290, Fall 2023

    American Short Story
    NLIT 3364, Fall 2023

    Past Courses

    American Short Story
    NLIT 3364, Fall 2022

    Dark Green: Eco Literature
    NLIT 3534, Spring 2023

    Mystery Masterworks
    NLIT 0834, Summer 2022

    Mystery Masterworks
    NLIT 3834, Summer 2023

    Novellas Classic and Modern
    NLIT 400, Summer 2022

    Novellas Classic and Modern
    NLIT 3400, Summer 2023

    Performing Gender
    NCST 2650, Spring 2023

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