YURI LEVING is Professor of Media, Film and Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University. Leving is the author of numerous monographs, among them: Nabokov in Motion. Modernity and Movement (New York, 2022), Poetry in a Dead Loop (Mandelstam and Aviation) (Moscow, 2021),  Joseph Brodsky in Rome. In 3 Volumes (St. Petersburg, 2020), A Revolution of the Visible (Moscow, 2018), Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies: The Symbolic Capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov with Frederick H. White (New York, 2013); Keys to The Gift. A Guide to V. Nabokov’s Novel (Boston, 2011); Upbringing by Optics: Book Illustration, Animation, and Text (Moscow, 2010); Train Station – Garage – Hangar. Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Russian Urbanism (St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh, 2004, Short-listed for Andrei Bely Prize), and has also edited and co-edited six volumes of articles, including: Shades of Laura. Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura (Montreal, 2013); Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design (New York, 2013); Anatomy of a Short Story (New York, 2012, with an afterword by John Banville); The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac (2010), and Empire N. Nabokov and His Heirs (2006). 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, D.C., which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. Leving is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal. You can visit his website: https://www.yurileving.com/

BARBARA WYLLIE is Deputy Editor of the Slavonic and East European Review at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She read English at Cambridge and then took a Master’s in Russian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she went on to study for a PhD on Nabokov. Her first monograph, Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction, was published in 2003. She has also written for Liza Zunshine’s Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries (1999), Stephen Kellman and Irving Malin’s Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (2000) and Yuri Leving’s Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel, ‘The Original of Laura’ (2013), as well as The Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998), The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005) and the Wiley/Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (2009). Her most recent book is an illustrated literary biography for Reaktion’s Critical Lives series (Vladimir Nabokov, 2010), and she is a contributor to a forthcoming collection, Nabokov in Context, edited by David Bethea and Siggy Frank for Cambridge University Press.
Areas of specialization: Nabokov, Russian and American literature, cinema and music.    

MATTHEW ROTH is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Messiah University, in Grantham, Pennsylvania. His scholarly work has been largely focused on Nabokov, specifically Pale Fire. His research on Pale Fire has unearthed a number of previously undiscovered sources and allusions, including Edsel Ford’s poem, “The Image of Desire,” and a book of surnames from which Nabokov drew many of his character’s names. Other recent essays on Pale Fire include a comprehensive review of the holograph manuscript, a new contribution to the authorship question, and a reappraisal of Hazel Shade’s role in the novel. In addition to his work on Nabokov, he is the author of a volume of poems, Bird Silence, published by the Woodley Press (2009).
Areas of specialization: Nabokov, creative writing, English studies, contemporary American poetry

NASSIM WINNIE BALESTRINI is Professor of American Studies and Intermediality at Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria. She has held positions at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, at the University of California, Davis, and at the universities of Paderborn and of Regensburg, Germany. Her publications consider American literature and culture (predominately of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries), Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian and English works, and adaptation and intermedial relations (as in her monograph From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera [2005] and in the edited volume Adaptation and American Studies [2011]). Her current research interests include hip-hop artists’ life writing across media, intersections between socially oriented art and interactive websites, Asian American poetry, African American theater and performance, and the poet laureate traditions in the United States and in Canada.
Areas of specialization: Nabokov, Digital Humanities, New Media, American literature

     WAYNE JONES is a writer, podcaster, and editor in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. He holds a BA (Hons) in English
     from Memorial University, an MA in English literature from the University of Toronto, and an MLS in library science from
     Western University. He is the author of several books, the latest being My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General
     Readers (2023). Wayne has broad experience in the editing of books and journals, including for a large university press.
     More information at WayneJones.ca.