Antipodean American literary studies : An interview with Paul Giles [Interview]

Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of many books discussing English, American, and Australian literature from transnational perspectives, including American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002), The Global Remapping of American Literature (Princeton University Press, 2011), Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature (Oxford University Press, 2013). He was previously President of the International American Studies Association (2005-2007) and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University (2003-2008). He is currently serving as president of the International Association of University Professors of English and completing a trilogy of books on cultural representations of antipodean time, of which the first two volumes have recently been published: Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2021).