Contributors

Nabokov Studies 6 (2000/2001) Contributors David Andrews has taught literature, history, and writing at the State University of New York and Chicago State University and has published criticism, interviews , reviews, fiction, and poetry in numerous essay collections and journals, including Film Criticism, Leviathan, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Bridge, Context, Serpentine, Hunger, and Indefinite Space. In 1999, Edwin Mellen published his book, Aestheticism, Nabokov, and Lolita; this year, the SUNY Press published his long essay, "Vonnegut and Aesthetic Humanism" in At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Currently, Andrews teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working for the Dalkey Archive Press on two book-length studies of the works of Gilbert Sorrentino. Liana Ashenden is reading for a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge on genetics, science, and literature in the twentieth century. She graduated from the University of Auckland with a first-class MA, BA and BSc and wrote her MA dissertation on "Mimicry, Mimesis and Desire in Nabokov's Ada." Liana is the co-author of a review article entitled "Towards gene therapy for the central nervous system," published in Molecular Medicine Today. Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Among his books are Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985; revised and expanded edition, cybereditions .com, 2001); Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton, 1990; winner of the Einhard Prize for Biography, 2001); Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, 1991); and Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (Princeton, 1999; an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000). He has also edited Nabokov's English novels and memoirs (Library of America, 3 vols., 1996) and co-edited, with Robert Michael PyIe, Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (Beacon, 2000). He is currently writing an evolutionary and cognitive account of fiction (The Origin of Stories) and a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper. David Galef is an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He has published eight books: The Supporting Cast, a study of flat and minor characters; Second Thoughts, an anthology of essays on rereading; the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese; two translations of Japanese proverbs; and two children's books. His essays and fiction have appeared in places ranging from The Columbia History of the British Novel and Twentieth Century Literature to The New York Times and Newsday, Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, xii Nabokov Studies and elsewhere. He is currently working on a third novel and a study of passiveaggressive characters in literature. Kurt Johnson is a lepidopterist associated with the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. As a scientist he has published hundreds of technical papers on butterflies, many concerning the "blue" butterflies of Nabokov. After an incipient paper on Nabokov's lepidoptery in Nabokov Studies 3 (1996), Dr. Johnson went on to co-author, with Steve Coates, Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius (Zoland Books, 1999; Mc-Graw Hill, 2000). He has since presented papers on Nabokov's science at conventions of the Modern Language Association and American Literature Association and is currently collaborating with various colleagues and Harvard University on a DNA analysis of Nabokov's Latin American blues. Dr. Johnson is also donating duplicate archives on Nabokov 's science and the Nabokov centenary to the libraries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera at the University of Florida. Sam Schuman (BA, Grinnell; MA, San Francisco State University; PhD, Northwestern University) has written on Nabokov, on the Renaissance Drama, and on Nabokov and the Renaissance Drama. He served as President of the Vladimir Nabokov Society, and is currently the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota, Morris, a public liberal arts college in the rural upper Midwest. Savely Senderovich. Philologist, professor of Russian Literature & Medieval Studies at Cornell University, author oiAletheia (a book on Pushkin's genre of elegy, Vienna, 1982), Penates (studies in Russian poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in collaboration with Marena Senderovich; East Lansing, 1990), Anton Chekhov - Eye to Eye (St. Petersburg, 1994), St. George in Russian Culture (Bern, 1994; 2nd ed. Moscow...