metaphysics

Erik Eklund (1991–) is a Research Scholar with the Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, and Adjunct Professor at Northwest University (Kirkland, WA), where he teaches in the Department of English and the College of Ministry. His primary areas of research and inquiry include literature and religion, literary reflexivity, and Nabokov studies, with a particular interest in authorial identity, unreliability, and indeterminacy.

Nakata, Akiko is Professor of English at Nanzan University. She is a founding member of the Nabokov Society of Japan and a member of the Kyoto Reading Circle. She co-translated into Japanese and co-annotated, with Tadashi Wakashima, Transparent Things.

Leona Toker is Professor Emerita in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989) and numerous articles on Nabokov.

Dana Dragunoiu is Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her Ph.D. dissertation, titled “‘The universe embraced by consciousness’:  Vladimir Nabokov’s Philosophical Domain,” was completed in 2000. Her monograph, titled Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism, was published in 2011 by Northwestern University Press. In addition to her work on Nabokov, she has also published scholarly articles on J.M.

Brian Boyd (1952- ), University Distinguished Professor, English and Drama, Auckland, New Zealand, has worked on Nabokov since the early 1970s, as an annotator, archivist, bibliographer, biographer, critic, editor, and translator, and on documentary and photographic projects.