{"id":228,"date":"2009-06-29T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:46:43","slug":"dragunoiu-dana","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/dragunoiu-dana\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Dragunoiu"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anglo-American and European literature (with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethics and intellectual history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vladimir Nabokov studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Current Research <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Though my two scholarly books focus on the work of the Russo-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, they do so by ranging widely across the intellectual and cultural histories of Russia, Europe, and the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Poetics-of-Liberalism-Dragunoiu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27569\" style=\"width:164px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Poetics-of-Liberalism-Dragunoiu.jpg 998w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Poetics-of-Liberalism-Dragunoiu-512x770.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Poetics-of-Liberalism-Dragunoiu-320x481.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Poetics-of-Liberalism-Dragunoiu-768x1154.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My first book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctv47w6dh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism<\/a><\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2011), provides an original account of the relationship between art and politics in Nabokov\u2019s Russian and English novels. Challenging the sincerity of Nabokov&#8217;s self-proclaimed &#8220;supreme indifference&#8221; to social and political matters, the book argues that an ambitious, complex, and surprisingly pragmatic political project rests at the heart of his fiction. The full stakes of this project\u00a0remain invisible and unintelligible when his work is read in isolation from\u00a0the political and philosophical debates that shaped the highly charged political climate of his youth in Russia. Even Nabokov\u2019s most explicitly &#8220;American&#8221; novels (for example, <em>Lolita<\/em>) and his most pointed engagements with American politics remain firmly embedded in the particular brand of \u201cold-fashioned liberalism\u201d\u00a0that he associated with his own father&#8217;s political career in pre-revolutionary Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Vladimir-Nabokov-and-the-Art-of-Moral-Acts-Dragunoiu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24121\" style=\"width:178px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My second book, titled <em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nupress.northwestern.edu\/9780810144002\/vladimir-nabokov-and-the-art-of-moral-acts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts<\/a><\/em><\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2021), won <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2Fprizes&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Cfb5698f527814678e7d008de21181daf%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638984584657078215%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lkt9cuyZUcsE1kuQme46ku9vTp9rFwk0hxTCh9yFdf0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">the Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2Fprizes&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Cfb5698f527814678e7d008de21181daf%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638984584657099067%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JBQbIwhBQgWvbEYKSaMgqj8hj3alNYfapORSxikhYio%3D&amp;reserved=0\"> <\/a>sponsored by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. It tells the story of the subtle and generative interaction of ethics and aesthetics in Nabokov\u2019s writing. The book presses Nabokov\u2019s novels into a triangular dialogue with the achievements of some of the writers he loved best (especially Pushkin, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Proust), with Kantian moral philosophy, and with a body of literature (the European traditions of chivalric literature he studied as an undergraduate at Cambridge) whose profound influence on Nabokov remains largely unrecognized. This configuration of literary influences and philosophical contexts enables me to give an original account of the formation, career, and legacies of an author whose work remains important for both the general reading public and for academic scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27675\" style=\"width:178px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Dragunoiu-Simply-Nabokov.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also written a trade book on the subject of Nabokov in the Simply Charly series published by Casa Carlini. Titled<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcasacarlini.com%2Fproduct%2Fsimply-nabokov%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480099546%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=B9qP%2BAMoHn72pGCaNxsom8JmkWjuoOwYJN8h9e%2Bx4Es%3D&amp;reserved=0\"> <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/casacarlini.com\/product\/simply-nabokov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simply Nabokov<\/a><\/em> (Casa Carlini, 2025), this short volume\u00a0offers an accessible guide to the life and art of Vladimir Nabokov without sacrificing the depth and complexity of either.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"honours-and-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023-present\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 Member of the Executive Board of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023-present\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 Conference Coordinator of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023-present\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 Deputy Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480145952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Y9HIAdqO144pF0sLLO276xUoFjREkoK9aDQ7fNx%2BLIc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">TheNabokovian.org<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480171454%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FcI6I%2FvE9RYuNGHTPDr%2Fsdj6U18xcIc4gtsb6nlsWEo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018-2023\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002General Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480198315%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=X7aFJRF57q4TergCtcHon4bMW9TEcozSNcRn%2F5fHMxA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">TheNabokovian.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019-2021\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Member of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Senate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"peer-refereed-essays\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Peer-Refereed Essays<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2025-04%2FDragunoiu_Spring_2025_0.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480219441%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Ua6X%2BWhU237vA7xoOczCAC1cx5NhLYacs%2F855I318Pg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u201cHumbert\u2019s \u2018Sense of Sin\u2019 and Dostoevsky\u2019s <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2025-04%2FDragunoiu_Spring_2025_0.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480243525%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2F96IueTvND2tIvBptnV4khGWn%2BR531GER9ED2q1Zd1g%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Brothers Karamazov<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenabokovian.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2025-04%2FDragunoiu_Spring_2025_0.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480261957%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=RPwO7aXB3szZmSeZZtxI7SbmhN3pyllbDCG%2Fa%2BP2RwA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The Nabokovian: Notes<\/em> <em>and Brief Annotations<\/em>&nbsp;88 (Spring 2025): 1-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/article\/901977\">\u201cHazel Shade\u2019s Russian Sisterhood, or Is <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/article\/901977\">Pale Fire<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/article\/901977\">&nbsp;a Feminist Novel?\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Nabokov Studies<\/em>&nbsp;18 (2022-2023): 7-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nabokovonline.com%2Fuploads%2F2%2F3%2F7%2F7%2F23779748%2F5_dragunoiu-articlel.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480279570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qixeEU8%2BnrNMkqKJEx5%2FEcy2O3hWAnXG91dFy18J5dE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u201cMaking History from the Future: <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nabokovonline.com%2Fuploads%2F2%2F3%2F7%2F7%2F23779748%2F5_dragunoiu-articlel.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480296912%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=PA7nG0UUvfaSEHUdjmWpSlYMboGT3cKGezUac7ycuKo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Lolita<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nabokovonline.com%2Fuploads%2F2%2F3%2F7%2F7%2F23779748%2F5_dragunoiu-articlel.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CStephanieLeblanc%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5e564110371a4daffec508de124d4e25%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638968320480506571%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IJl39uW5h3orggXtm%2FS49te%2BeRokplPWHHpcoWTLqck%3D&amp;reserved=0\">&nbsp;and Proust\u2019s&nbsp;Cahier 36.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Nabokov Online Journal<\/em>&nbsp;15 (2021): 1-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/comparative-literature\/article\/72\/3\/340\/166351\/The-Afterlives-of-Odette-and-Albertine-in-Lolita-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Afterlives of Odette and Albertine in <em>Lolita<\/em>\u2019s Final Chapters.<\/a>\u201d <em>Comparative Literature 72:3 (2020): 340-60.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Lolita<\/em>: Nabokov\u2019s Rewriting of Dostoevsky\u2019s <em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>.\u201d <em>Nabokov Studies <\/em>13 (2014): 20-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/44030393?seq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neo\u2019s Kantian Choice:&nbsp; <em>The Matrix Reloaded<\/em> and the Limits of the Posthuman.<\/a>\u201d <em>Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature <\/em>40.4 (2007): 51-67.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0021989406062919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J.M. Coetzee\u2019s <em>Life &amp; Times of Michael K<\/em> and the Thin Theory of the Good.<\/a>\u201d <em>The Journal of Commonwealth Literature <\/em>41.1 (2006): 69-92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/186581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s <em>Ada<\/em>:&nbsp; Art, Deception, Ethics.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Contemporary Literature<\/em> 46.2&nbsp; (2005): 311-39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/44019152?seq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, and the Case of <em>Being John Malkovich<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d <em>Film Criticism <\/em>26.2 (2001-2002): 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/3831866.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s <em>Invitation to a Beheading<\/em> and the Russian Radical Tradition.<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp; Journal of Modern Literature 25.1 (2001): 53-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fundamental Ambiguities:&nbsp; Existential Freedom and Responsibility in J.M. Coetzee&#8217;s <em>Foe.&#8221;&nbsp; Critique:&nbsp; Studies in Contemporary Fiction<\/em> 42.3 (2001): 309-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/21516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hemingway&#8217;s Debt to Stendhal&#8217;s <em>Armance<\/em> in <em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221;&nbsp; Modern Fiction Studies<\/em> 46.4 (2000): 868-92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/40\/article\/376153\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dialogues with Berkeley:&nbsp; Idealist Metaphysics and Epistemology in Nabokov&#8217;s <em>Bend Sinister.<\/em><\/a><em>&#8221;&nbsp; Nabokov Studies<\/em> 5 (1998\/1999): 47-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"chapters-in-edited-books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chapters in Edited Books&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTime, Memory, the General, and the Specific in <em>Lolita <\/em>and <em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em>\u201d in <em>Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory. <\/em>Edited by Irena Ksi\u0119\u017copolska and Miko\u0142aj Wi\u015bniewski. Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNabokov and Liberalism\u201d in <em>Nabokov in Context. <\/em>Edited by David Bethea and Siggy Frank. Cambridge UP, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn Pity and Courtesy in Nabokov\u2019s Ethics.\u201d Edited by Brian Boyd and Marijeta Bozovic. <em>Nabokov Upside Down<\/em>. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Lolita<\/em>: Law, Ethics, Politics.\u201d <em>Approaches to Teaching Nabokov\u2019s <u>Lolita<\/u><\/em>. Ed. Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008. 121-127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"essays-translated-by-others\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Essays Translated by Others<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>\u017bycie i czasy Michaela K<\/em>: J.M. Coetzeego i w\u0105ska teoria dobra.\u201d Trans. Piotr Jakubowski. In <em>Wielcy arty\u015bci ucieczek: Eseje o \u017byciu i czasach Michaela K J.M. Coetzeego w trzydziest\u0105 rocznic\u0119 publikacji powie\u015bci<\/em>. Ed. Piotr Jakubowski and M. Jankowska. Krak\u00f3w: &#8220;Ha!art,\u201d 2013. [\u201cJ.M. Coetzee\u2019s <em>Life &amp; Times of Michael K<\/em> and the Thin Theory of the Good,\u201d in <em>Great Escape Artists: Essays on J.M. Coetzee\u2019s Life &amp; Times of Michael K on the 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of Its Publication<\/em>. Eds. Piotr Jakubowski and M. Jankowska. Cracow: Ha!Art, 2013]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"recent-papers-presented-at-conferences\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Papers Presented at Conferences<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMapping the Impermissible in Vladimir Nabokov,\u201d ASEEES 2024 Annual Convention, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNabokov and the Nature of Family,\u201d <em>Vladimir Nabokov: \u00c9crire la nature<\/em>\/Vladimir Nabokov: Writing Nature Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 27-30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHazel Shade as Descendant of Tatiana Larin, or Is <em>Pale Fire<\/em>&nbsp;a Feminist Text?\u201d Hidden Nabokov Conference, Wellesley, Massachusetts, June 16-19, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat does Nabokov\u2019s fiction tell us about love? \/ \u0427\u0442\u043e \u043c\u044b \u0443\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0435\u043c \u043e \u043b\u044e\u0431\u0432\u0438 \u0438\u0437 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0437\u044b N\u0430\u0431\u043e\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430?\u201d (in English),&nbsp;\u041d\u0430\u0431\u043e\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0447\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f\/Nabokov&nbsp;Readings Conference, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkin House, July 1-3, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Lolita <\/em>and Proust\u2019s Cahier 36.\u201d Colloque international\/International Conference \u201cVladimir Nabokov: histoire et g\u00e9ographie\u201d\/\u201cVladimir Nabokov: History and Geography.\u201d Paris, June 6-8, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiar! Or the Untold Story of Mira Belochkin in <em>Pnin<\/em>.\u201d ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East&nbsp;European, and Eurasian Studies) 49<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Convention, November 9-12, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTime and Memory in Nabokov\u2019s <em>Lolita<\/em> and Proust\u2019s <em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em>.\u201d Vladimir&nbsp;Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory International Conference. Warsaw, Poland. September 22-23, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Senses Don\u2019t Make Sense: Nabokov and Proust.\u201d \u201cDo the Senses Make Sense?\u201d:&nbsp;The Five Senses in Nabokov\u2019s Work. International Conference organized by the French Vladimir Nabokov Society. Biarritz, France. April 28-May 1, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Art of Truth and the Art of Deception: Nabokov\u2019s <em>Pale Fire<\/em> and Tolstoy\u2019s <em>War and <\/em><em>Peace.<\/em>\u201d ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) 47<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Convention, Boston, November 19-22, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"recent-graduate-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Graduate Courses<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5900: The Great Russian Novel: Dostoevsky\u2019s <em>The Brothers Karamazov <\/em>and Tolstoy\u2019s <em>Anna Karenina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5606: Nabokov\u2019s&nbsp;<i>Lolita<\/i>&nbsp;and Dostoevsky\u2019s&nbsp;<i>The Brothers Karamazov&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5606: Tolstoy\u2019s&nbsp;<i>War and Peace<\/i>&nbsp;and Nabokov\u2019s&nbsp;<i>Pale Fire<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5606: Kant and the Modern Novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5603: Vladimir Nabokov in Context<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5607: The New Liberal Imagination<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5607: Vladimir Nabokov:&nbsp; Fiction, Philosophy, Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"ph-d-dissertation-committees\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ph.D. Dissertation Committees<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivier Jacques. Dissertation on twentieth-century British literature and the Bolshevik Revolution. To be defended in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alicha Keddy. Dissertation on Modernist women writers. Defended 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"doctoral-dissertations-examined\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Doctoral Dissertations Examined<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Erik Eklund, <em>A Triptych of Bottomless Light: Repetition, Originality, and Transcendence in Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s <u>Pale Fire<\/u><\/em>. Principal supervisors: Prof. Alison Milbank and Prof. Siggy Frank, University of Nottingham, England, UK. July 23, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy Groen, <em>Nabokov in Conversation:<\/em> <em>A Philosophico-Critical Exploration of the Moral Dimension of His American Works. <\/em>Principal supervisors: Prof. dr. S.A. Levie and Prof. dr. P.M.J. van Tongeren. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 15 November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"masters-thesis-supervised\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Master\u2019s Thesis Supervised<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Aislynn Smith, \u201cStrategies for Surviving Putin\u2019s Russia: Contemporary Anti-Utopian Literature,\u201d EURUS. Thesis was successfully defended on August 23, 2024. 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