Charles Nicol

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Charles Nicol (born 1940) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov,[1] and also writes widely on fiction (particularly science fiction and detective fiction) and popular culture. He is a retired Professor in the Department of English at Indiana State University.

Academic and Publishing History

Nicol has been publishing on Nabokov since 1967.[2] In 1970 he completed a PhD at Bowling Green State University with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov.[3] He was elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society twice (including as its first president).[2] In 1984 he became a Fulbright senior lecturer.

He has written for The American Spectator,[4] The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune,[5] Harper's Magazine,[6] The National Review, The New York Times,[7] The Saturday Review,[4] Science Fiction Studies,[8] and The Washington Post.

Major works

  • J.E. Rivers and Charles Nicol, Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work (1982)
  • Charles Nicol and Gennady Barabtarlo, A small alpine form: studies in Nabokov's short fiction (1993)

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Charles Nicol: Buzzwords and Dorophonemes. How Words Proliferate and Things Decay in Ada. In: Gavriel Shapiro: Nabokov at Cornell. Ithaca, N.Y. 2003
  3. Nicol, Charles David. Types of Formal Structure in Selected Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ph.D. thesis, Bowling Green State University, 1970.
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