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Faculty Member, English
University Distinguished Professor
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I have published on American, Brazilian, English, Greek, New Zealand, and Russian literature and on literary modes from epics to comics, but I have four main areas: novelist Vladimir Nabokov; Shakespeare; literature, evolution and cognition, and, more generally, literature and science; and philosopher of science Karl Popper.
I have written a two-volume biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991), monographs on Ada (1985; rev. ed. 2001) and on Pale Fire (1999), and have edited Nabokov’s fiction and memoirs (Library of America, 3 vols., 1996), Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (1999), Speak, Memory (1999), Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry (2008), Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade (2011), and Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays (2011). Forthcoming Nabokov books include Letters to Véra (2013).
In literature and evolution, I have written On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (2009), and co-edited, with Joseph Carroll and Jonathan Gottschall, Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (2010). A companion piece, Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets, will be published by Harvard University Press in April 2010. I intend to write a sequel, On the Ends of Stories: Literature, Evolution, and Cognition, also for Harvard, which will focus on Shakespeare, Austen, Joyce, Spiegelman and film, but it will have to wait until the Popper biography is done.
In Shakespeare studies, I have edited Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson (2004), written the forthcoming Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (2102) and essays on Titus Andronicus, King John, and Hamlet.
After setting Karl Popper: A Life aside for a number of years to work on literature and evolution, I am returning to it to work on it full-time from 2012 to 2014, on a Marsden Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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