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Actually, I think Edmund White also teaches at Princeton.
>From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
>Subject: Fwd: RE: QUERY: Studying Nabokov and Proust at the Docotral
>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:56:49 -0700
>
>Michael Wood in Princeton's English Department is a first-rate
Nabokovian
>with a fine knowledge of French literature, icnluding Proust (and, since
you
>mention oracles, has written a book on them!), although he must be close
to
>retiring. If Edmund White is still in the US (teaching writing or
>literature?), he also is a fine reader of Nabokov and has written a book
on
>Proust.
>
>BB
>---------------------------------------
>EDNOTE. I don't think Edmund White is teaching. In Paris, last I heard.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald B. Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 6:17 AM
>
>Subject: QUERY: Studying Nabokov and Proust at the Docotral Level
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alyssa Pelish <hsilep@yahoo.com>
>
>Dear List,
>
>It is with the hope of eliciting arrows and oracles that I write with
the
>following request:
>
>Where, within the (yes, admitted) confines of the U.S. University
offering
>doctoral programs in literature, are the scholars who study both Nabokov
and
>Proust?
>
>I am a fledgling scholar of both, intrigued most by semiotic identity
and
>the philosophy of language and mind. I seek a university (most likely
>harboring a comparative literature program) with elder scholars who can
>nourish my growing appetite to study such subjects. (Yes, I have looked
at
>the members list of the Nabokov Society, but this leaves me still
searching,
>considering that many of these members are either at schools without
>doctoral programs, are outside the U.S., are not university faculty, or
>whose interests within the realm of Nabokov do not coincide adequately
with
>mine.)
>
>I realize mine is a very specific request, and therefore the more
difficult
>to be fulfilled. However, I am hoping that some knowledgeable body on
the
>Listserv might point me in a promising direction.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Alyssa Pelish (hsilep@yahoo.com)
>
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>From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
>Subject: Fwd: RE: QUERY: Studying Nabokov and Proust at the Docotral
>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:56:49 -0700
>
>Michael Wood in Princeton's English Department is a first-rate
Nabokovian
>with a fine knowledge of French literature, icnluding Proust (and, since
you
>mention oracles, has written a book on them!), although he must be close
to
>retiring. If Edmund White is still in the US (teaching writing or
>literature?), he also is a fine reader of Nabokov and has written a book
on
>Proust.
>
>BB
>---------------------------------------
>EDNOTE. I don't think Edmund White is teaching. In Paris, last I heard.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald B. Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 6:17 AM
>
>Subject: QUERY: Studying Nabokov and Proust at the Docotral Level
>
>----- Forwarded message from hsilep@yahoo.com -----
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alyssa Pelish <hsilep@yahoo.com>
>
>Dear List,
>
>It is with the hope of eliciting arrows and oracles that I write with
the
>following request:
>
>Where, within the (yes, admitted) confines of the U.S. University
offering
>doctoral programs in literature, are the scholars who study both Nabokov
and
>Proust?
>
>I am a fledgling scholar of both, intrigued most by semiotic identity
and
>the philosophy of language and mind. I seek a university (most likely
>harboring a comparative literature program) with elder scholars who can
>nourish my growing appetite to study such subjects. (Yes, I have looked
at
>the members list of the Nabokov Society, but this leaves me still
searching,
>considering that many of these members are either at schools without
>doctoral programs, are outside the U.S., are not university faculty, or
>whose interests within the realm of Nabokov do not coincide adequately
with
>mine.)
>
>I realize mine is a very specific request, and therefore the more
difficult
>to be fulfilled. However, I am hoping that some knowledgeable body on
the
>Listserv might point me in a promising direction.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Alyssa Pelish (hsilep@yahoo.com)
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>http://mail.yahoo.com
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