Nicholas Birns is Associate Professor at New York University, USA, where he concentrates in general humanities, fiction in English from 1700 as well as literary theory. His books include Understanding Anthony Powell (2004), the co-edited Companion To Australian Fiction since 1900 (2007). The latter was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2008. He is also the author of Theory After Theory (2010), Willa Cather: Critical Insights (2011), Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature (2013), Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead (2015) and Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (2010, co-ed. Juan E. de Castro). He has published essays and reviews in The New York Times Book Review, the Australian Literary Review, the Australian Book Review, Arizona Quarterly, and Exemplaria; Studies in Romanticism, Symbiosis, College Literature, and European Romantic Review.

1 History in the Archives and on the Road

2 Forehistories: Prehistory to the Pre- Roman

3 From Ulfilas to Appendix F: How Tolkien Yearned for, and Gave Up, the Goths

4 Interhistories: Tolkien, Byzantium, and the Worlds of Modern Fantasy

5 Hobbits, the Rohirrim and the Modern Histories of Politeness

6 Sylvan Historians: The Silvan Elves in Nature and History

7 Philology and History: Tolkien, Auerbach, Said

8 Afterhistories: Or, Why Moria Was Not Restored?