Contributors
- Contributors
Brendan J. Nieubuurt is Librarian for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan. He earned his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University in 2018, with a focus on Russian literary modernisms. His dissertation, titled "Flesh Made Word: Inscription and the Embodied Self in Mandelstam and Nabokov," was awarded the International Nabokov Society's Zoran Kuzmanovich Prize for best dissertation. Brendan's research focuses on the phenomenologies of what he calls disordered selfhoods and the role of language in expressing and, importantly, potentially reclaiming and restoring the self from such states. The expanded version of his dissertation—now being prepared into a book manuscript under the provisional title The "Sentenced" Self: Alienation, Trauma, and Self Writing in Russian Literary Modernism—reflects these concerns as it introduces the works of writers such as Varlam Shalamov and Venedikt Erofeev to the thematic dialogue.
Jeremy Stewart is SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the English Literature department at Lancaster University, UK. His dissertation-in-progress is on Jacques Derrida's "Envois," the Book of Daniel, and dream interpretation. Also a writer, Stewart's next book is an experimental novel entitled In Singing, He Composed a Song (University of Calgary Press, 2021).
Erik Eklund is a PhD candidate in Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham and adjunct professor at Northwest University, where he teaches theology, biblical studies, and English. His research focuses upon theological aesthetics and subtexts in Nabokov's creative prose writings, particularly upon the poetics of repetition and their relation to metafiction and metaphysics in Pale Fire. He is the recipient of the 2019 Dieter E. Zimmer Prize for Best Postgraduate Work on Vladimir Nabokov and has also published on the influence of medieval cosmology and theology upon C. S. Lewis' eschatology.
Savely Senderovich. Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature & Medieval Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Author of studies in Old Russian letters ("Anglo-Saxon parallels to the vitae of Boris and Gleb", "The lay of Prince Igor campaign in the context of South-Slavic and East-Slavic folklore", and more) history of Russian culture (St. George in the History of Russian Culture, 1994), on modern Russian literature (Alethea: Pushkin's Elegy Remembrance, 1982), Anton Chekhov—Eye to Eye, 1994), on folklore (The Riddle of the Riddle, 2005). Four volumes of selected writings published by Yazyki Slavianskikh Kul'tur (Moscow, 2012-2019).
Yelena Shvarts. Independent scholar, Ithaca NY. Former curator of Old-Russian and Medieval Greek manuscripts at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, Russia. Author of XV Century Novgorodian Manuscripts (1989). Jointly with Savely Senderovich, author of some fifty papers on Vladimir Nabokov.
Jennifer Sears is recipient of creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her essays and stories appear or are forthcoming in North America Review, Witness, Kenyon Review Online, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading series, Guernica, and Fiction International among others. She is Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. [End Page vii]
Eric Naiman teaches Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Nabokov, Perversely (2010), Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (1997) and many articles on nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature.
Johan Warodell is the author of Conrad's Decentered Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which produces a new picture of Conrad as a writer, and the first picture of Conrad as an amateur sketch artist. He has also written on Melville, Russell, and Woolf, and contributed essays to The Cambridge Quarterly, Conradiana, The Conradian, English, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and Notes & Queries. His writings have won prizes from the British and American Joseph Conrad Societies. He is an Early-Career Research Associate at the University of Sussex, where he explores species richness in modern texts.
Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor in English, University of Auckland, has worked on Nabokov for over fifty years and on Ada for much of that time: in his PhD thesis (1976-1978) and its book version (1985), and in his ongoing "Annotations to Ada" (1993- ) and their online expansion...
