Contributors

Nabokov Studies Notes Readers are encouraged to direct comments and responses to the articles, forum pieces, or reviews in Nabokov Studies to the Nabokov internet discussion listserve, NABOKV-L; send e-mail to NABOKV-L@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu. Contributors Anat Ben-Amos received her MA in English literature at the Hebrew University (Israel) under the supervision of Leona Toker. Now she has submitted her PhD thesis at the Department of Literature, University of Essex (England), entitled "Imagination and Literature in the Russian Prose of Vladimir Nabokov. " Her other research interests include Soviet literature, especially socialist realist prose, and contemporary Russian literature. Stephen H. Blackwell is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of "Reading and Rupture in Invitation to a Beheading," SEEJ (Spring 1995). Brian Boyd teaches English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written several books on Nabokov, the most recent being Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991) and the forthcoming Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery . He has also edited four volumes of Nabokov's work. He is currently a James Cook Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, researching a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper . Xl Anna Brodsky teaches at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and writes on Turgenev, Bunin, Sokolov and Nabokov. Julian W. Connolly is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Ivan Bunin and Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other, co-editor of Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev; and editor of Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading": A Course Companion and Nabokov and His Fiction : New Perspectives (forthcoming). Gerard de Vries is an independent Nabokov scholar from Voorschoten, The Netherlands. Sarah Herbold has recently completed her dissertation, "Woman as Symptom of Modernity," in the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley. Her thesis includes a chapter on Lolita titled "'Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury': The Art of Compromising Positions. " D. Barton Johnson is the author of A Transformational Analysis of OT Constructions in Contemporary Standard Russian and Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, as well as numerous articles on VN and other Russian Modernists. Twice the president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, he is the founder of NABOKV-L and Nabokov Studies. Simon Karlinsky is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley. His many publications include books on Chekov, Gogol, Gippius, and Tsvetaeva. Among several books he has edited are The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West, 1922-1972 and The Nabokov-Wilson Letters. Priscilla Meyer teaches at Wesleyan University and is the author of Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Nabokov's Pale Fire. Paul Morris is currently translating into English early émigré critical essays on Nabokov's works and teaches at the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany. xii Nabokov Studies Vladimir Mylnikov wrote his doctoral thesis on Nabokov at Volgograd University. He teaches Russian in China. Svetlana Polsky teaches at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden where she has also written a dissertation, "Death and Immortality in Nabokov's Russian Short Stories." She has published articles on Nabokov's stories "Cloud, Castle, Lake," "A Busy Man," and on the poem "Lilith." She has also written on Ivan Bunin. Amy Spungen is a writer and editor from Highland Park, Illinois. She did her graduate work at Northwestern University, writing her thesis on Henry Roth. She has also written about Shakespeare, Cynthia Ozick, and feminism. ...