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Brian Boyd
New Zealand professor and literary critic
For the Australian trade unionist, see Brian Boyd (unionist).
Brian David Boyd (born 30 July 1952) is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Boyd emigrated to New Zealand as a child with his family in 1957.
In 1979 Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, in the context of Nabokov's epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics. That year he took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Auckland (on New Zealand novelist Maurice Gee) before being appointed a lecturer in English there in 1980.
Work
[edit]Véra Nabokov, Nabokov's widow, in 1979 invited Boyd to catalogue her husband's archives, a task he completed in 1981. That year he also began researching a critical biography of Nabokov.
Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985; rev. 2001) examined Ada in its own terms and in relation to Nabokov's thought and style. Vladimir
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Brian Boyd (unionist)
Australian trade unionist
Brian Boyd is a trade unionist. He was elected secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council on 5 May 2005, succeeding Leigh Hubbard in this position, one of Australia's most powerful trade union roles.[citation needed] He is a longstanding member of Birds Australia, now called BirdLife Australia.[1]
Boyd worked for the Builders Labourers Federation from late 1979 to 1988, which included the period when the BLF was deregistered. He coordinated Victoria's building unions, when working as an industrial and campaigns officer with the Victorian Trades Hall since being elected to the position of Industrial Officer in 1988.[2]
In regard to the right to strike and industry-wide bargaining, Boyd was reported in The Age in April 2007 "I'm arguing that there's still no unfettered right to strike, there are limitations on it; we might want to stop work to give consideration to the Iraq war, for instance,"[3] The statement was made in regard to the debate around the Federal Australian Labor PartyIR policy leading up to the 2007 Federal election.[4]
In regard to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs), Boyd has voiced concern many may breach OHS law following statistics released in