BALLOT

ELECTION FOR THE POST OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE VLADIMIR NABOKOV SOCIETY

Julian W. Connolly, current President of the Vladimir Nabokov Society, will complete his term of office on December 31, 2009.  On January 1, 2010, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, the current Vice President, will become President of the Society for a two-year term, 2010–2012.  The Society’s by-laws require an election for the vacated office of the Vice President.

The nominating committee has put forward the names of two distinguished Nabokov scholars as candidates.  Brief resumes are provided below.

ONLY SOCIETY MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE SOCIETY, SEE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE.

PLEASE VOTE BY FORWARDING THIS E-MAIL TO JULIAN CONNOLLY AT jwc4w@virginia.edu

WRITE EITHER “Blackwell” OR “Leving” IN THE SUBJECT LINE

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF VOTES IS DECEMBER 18, 2009

STEVEN BLACKWELL is the author of The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science (Columbus, OH, 2009), and Zina's Paradox: The Figured Reader of Nabokov's Gift (New York, 2000), as well as over a dozen articles on various aspects of Nabokov's works.  Since 2005, he has been co-editor, with Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, of NABOKV-L.  A member of the Nabokov Society since 1993, he teaches Russian literature and language at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

YURI LEVING received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University (Canada), and serves as Chair of the Department of Russian Studies. Leving is the author of a book, Train Station – Garage – Hangar. Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism (2004) (Short-listed for Andrey Bely Prize). He also co-edited two volumes of articles, Eglantine (2005), and Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs (2006), as well as published over 60 articles in various academic journals. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes (1999-2001), and was the curator for the exhibition “Nabokov’s Lolita: 1955–2005” in Washington, DC, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. He is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (since 2007). Yuri Leving’s new monograph, Keys to The Gift. A Guide to V. Nabokov’s Novel, is forthcoming with Academic Studies Press (spring, 2010).

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

Membership in the Vladimir Nabokov Society is obtained through a subscription to the semi-annual publication, The Nabokovian.  Subscriptions for individual members cost $19.  (For postage to Canada, add $2.50; for postage anywhere else outside the US, add $6.)  Checks should be made payable to the Vladimir Nabokov Society.  Subscription requests should be sent to: Vladimir Nabokov Society, Dept. Of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2134 Wescoe Hll, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.

All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both co-editors.