Contributors

Nabokov Studies 7 (2002/2003) Contributors Victoria N. Alexander is co-founder and director of the Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, in New York City. She earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and did her dissertation research in teleology, evolutionary theory, and complexity science at the Santa Fe Institute with Jim Crutchfield, one of the original investigators of deterministic chaos. Published in the Antioch Review, English Language Notes, and Pynchon Notes, Alexander has investigated the use of chance in narrative by such diverse writers as Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Louis Begley, Henry James, Milan Kundera, Nabokov, CS. Peirce, Thomas Pynchon, and Shakespeare. Her novels Smoking Hopes and Naked Singularity pursue similar themes involving coincidence and intentionality. Her honors include a Rockefeller Foundation Residency (Bellagio, Italy), a Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Fellowship, two Art & Science Lab Residencies (Santa Fe), Alfred Kazin Award for Best Dissertation (GC, CUNY), and the Washington Prize for Fiction. Andrey Babikov, jurist, literary scholar, and writer, is a graduate of the Moscow Literary Institute. He is the author of several articles on literary topics and Vysokie tropy (Highland Paths/Lofty Tropes), a book of poems and stories. Stephen H. Blackwell teaches Russian Literature, Culture and Language at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). He is the author of Zina's Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift (Peter Lang, Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, 2000) and various articles on Nabokov. His current research centers on the relation of art and science in Nabokov's work, as well as on the intellectual life of the postrevolution Russian émigré communities in Berlin and Paris. He is presently translating Iulii Aikhenvald 's Pokhvala prazdnosti (In Praise of Idleness). Sabine Hartmann, born 1962, studied Russian language and literature in Berlin and Hamburg. She lives and works outside of Hamburg, Germany. Eric Naiman currently chairs the buoyantly thriving Comparative Literature Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton University Press, 1997). His recent publications include the introduction to Robert Chandler's translation of Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow Nabokov Studies (London: Harvill, 2001). With Evgeny Dobrenko he has edited The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space, to be published by the University of Washington Press in 2003. He is at work on a book entitled Nabokov, Perversely, from which the article published in this issue is taken. "Litland: The Allegorical Poetics of The Defense" was published in Nabokov Studies 5. Rachel Trousdale is Assistant Professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she teaches Modern and Postmodern Literature and Poetry Writing. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2002. Her research is on writers who combine several cultures in their work, and on the way these writers emphasize the imaginary nature of their worlds. She has published on Nabokov and on Isak Dinesen, and is currently working on Salman Rushdie; these three authors are to be the center of her book on imaginary worlds. She also writes poetry. She lives in Decatur with her partner, Nick Beauchamp. John Whalen-Bridge has written Political Fiction and the American Self (Illinois University Press, 1998) and has taught at the National University of Singapore since 1998. He is currently working on bohemian orientalism in postwar American culture. He has a wife and two children but does not collect butterflies. Dieter E. Zimmer, born in 1934, studied English and German literature in Berlin, the U.S., and Switzerland, worked as an editor and staff writer for the weekly Die Zeit from 1959 to 1999, and has authored and translated more than thirty-five books. He is the sole editor of Nabokov's collected works in German (Rowohlt, 1989—, 17 volumes so far). For more details, visit www.d-e-zimmer.de. ...