Contributors
- Contributors
Gene H. Bell-Villada is a Professor or Romance Languages at Williams College. His most recent publication is On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind: What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear.
Tim Harte, an associate professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College, has research interests that center on 20th-century Russian literature, film, and painting. His book Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910- 1930, published in 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press, explores the modernist "cult of speed" that emerged in Russian avant-garde painting, poetry, and cinema. Harte has also published articles on the Aleksandr Sokurov film Russian Ark, the "ferroconcrete poetry" of Vasilii Kamensky, and the treatment of modem athletics in the verse of Osip Mandel'stam. He is currently working on a book project devoted to the artistic preoccupation with competitive sports within the context of early twentieth-century Russian culture.
Thomas Karshan is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play (OUP, 2011), the editor of Nabokov's Collected Poems (Penguin/Knopf 2012), and the co-translator of Nabokov's Tragedy of Mister Mom (Penguin 2012/Knopf 2013). He is a Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is working on a book about undelivered letters.
Zoran Kuzmanovich teaches English at Davidson College and edits Nabokov Studies.
Christopher A. Link is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He regularly teaches a senior seminar on "Nabokov and Intertextuality," as well as courses on the Bible as literature, American literature, great books, the novel, and film. An active member of the Vladimir Nabokov Society, he has previously published in The Nabokovian and has presented several papers at the society's MLA and AATSEEL sessions. His article on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Nabokov's Despair is forthcoming shortly in Literature/Film Quarterly (Fall 2013), and he is currently at work on a book on the role of the demonic in Nabokov's works, a revision of his doctoral dissertation.
Monica Manolescu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Strasbourg. Her research focuses on 20th century and contemporary American literature, with a growing interest in American art as well. She has written a book on Nabokov's geographical imagination and co-written a companion to Lolita (Nabokov's novel and Kubrick's movie). She has edited several volumes of articles, including one on Nabokov by French academics. She is a founding member of the Nabokov Society of France and has co-organized the Society's first international conference on "Nabokov and France" in Paris in 2013.
Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov, published in 2013 by Pegasus Books and distributed by W.W. Norton. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Slate, USA Today, Poet Lore, and McSweeney’s. She founded Nieman Storyboard, the narrative site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she was an editor from 2007 to 2012. She has spoken on Vladimir Nabokov at the 92nd Street Y and the Smithsonian, and on narrative nonfiction in the U.S. and abroad. In 2009, she presented on Pale [End Page vii] Fire at the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia. She holds a B.S. in Humanities in International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
David Rampton is a Professor or English at the University of Ottawa. He teaches and publishes on 20th Centurry American literature with special emphasis on fiction since 1950. His two books on Nabokov were followed by William Faulkner, a Literary Life (2007).
Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993), Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” (1998), and The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009), and the editor of Nabokov at Cornell (2003). Shapiro’s new book, The Tender Friendship and he Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father, is...
