Nicholas Birns teaches at New York University. He is author most recently of The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Space (Lexington) and is co-editing the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (Cambridge UP) and A Companion to Anthony Trollope (McFarland). He has written on Tolkien in Mythlore, Tolkien Studies, and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts as well as the anthology Forgotten Leaves edited by Anthony Burdge and Jessica Burke, and spoke at the 2019 symposium on Tolkien at the Morgan Library.