Karl Popper; narrative, evolution and cognition; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.

Nabokov

Annotations to Ada (ongoing, The Nabokovian, 1993 - ): and on the Internet as ADAonline, www.ada.auckland.ac.nz

Co-editor, with Olga Voronina and Dmitri Nabokov, Letters to Véra, forthcoming Knopf, 2013.

Popper

Karl Popper: A Life (in preparation).

PhD

Zachary Norwood, From Object to Affect: A Neurocritical approach to Representation, Emotion, and Value Attribution under Reader-Response. 2006-.

Richard Viskovic, The Viral Realities of Philip K. Dick: Alienation, Marginalisation and the Privileging of the Idios Kosmos in the Mid-Period Fiction of Philip K. Dick, 2009-.

Ania Grant. From Mr Darcy to Mr Big: sexual selection and female choice in popular narratives for women. 2009-

Bruce Sheridan. Imagination, Mind & Creativity. 2010-.

Anaise Irvine. Children of Chaos: Genetic inheritance as a chaotic-deterministic system in heredity narratives. 2010-.

Maria MacKay, Klytaimestra and Gender Conflict, 2012-.

Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

(As editor.) Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Catnos by John Shade. Berkeley, CA: Ginkgo, 2011.

(As co-editor, with Joseph Carroll and Jonathan Gottschall.) Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. Nw York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

On the Origins of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd's Recent Publications

1979-80 The University of Auckland Postdoctoral Fellowship in New Zealand Literature

1980- Department of English, The University of Auckland

1994-95 Visiting Professor, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis

2002 Visiting Professor, Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg State University)