Vladimir Nabokov

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From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@isugw.indstate.edu>
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: San Diego MLA VN papers


The Nabokov Society is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA in San Francisco.
Both are at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.

5:15-6:30 p.m., Saturday, 27 December
Room: Ford C

NABOKOV AFTER LOLITA: PNIN AND PALE FIRE

1. "Pnin's Cinderella: His Story"
Gerald H. Cahill, Jr. Jamaica Plain, MA
2. "The Problem of Fiction in PALE FIRE and Thomas's PALE FIRES"
Jonathan R. Bass, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
3. "Dramatic Interludes in PALE FIRE"
Matthew I. Laufer, Columbia Univ.
4. "Hypertextual Readings of PALE FIRE"
Burcu S. Bakioglu, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

Presiding: Charles Nicol, Society President (and lame duck)

At the end there will be an extremely brief business meeting to confirm the
new slate of officers; I believe this is necessary to fulfill our Bylaws
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10:15-11:30 a.m., Monday, 29 December
Room: Cunningham A

APPROACHES TO TEACHING LOLITA

1. "Screening LOLITA: The Pedagogical Challenge of Decoding"
Kevin B. Birmingham, Harvard Univ.
2. "How to Teach LOLITA with Derrida"
Jacqueline Hamrit, Univ. Charles-de-Gaulle, Lisle, France
3. "Literature and the Law: Approaches to Teaching LOLITA"
Constance E. Holmes, Univ. of South Florida
4. "Teaching LOLITA as a Post-Romantic Text"
Claudia Moscovici, Univ. of Michigan

Presiding: Zoran Kuzmanovich, editor of NABOKOV STUDIES
(and nominee for vice-president)

By this time we will have located a spot to eat lunch, and we hope a number
of Society members will join us after the session for food (buy your own,
sorry) and de-briefing.