Vladimir Nabokov

Potter, David James

Graduate Student in European Studies at The University of Sydney.  

 

Works Authored:

'Ardor or Ada? - Authority, Artifice, and Ambivalence in Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor' (MPhil thesis, University of Sydney, 2019).  [Link]

'Paramnesia, Anticipatory Memory, and Future Recollection in Ada' in Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory (Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego, 2019). [Link]

“Nabokov in Dreamland”. Review of Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov  (ed. Gennedy Barabtarlo in Sydney Review of Books, July 2018. [Link]

 

Conference Presentations:

‘Navigating the Distant Northern Waters of Pale Fire from Another Hemisphere’. Presented (via Zoom) for the Nabokov Readings Conference, Pushkin House, Russia, July 2022. [Link]

‘Paramnesia and the L-disaster in Nabokov’s Ada’. Presented at Hidden Nabokov conference, Wellesley College, USA, June 2022.

‘Pekka Tammi – The Forgotten Master of Nabokov’s Style’. Presented at The Idea of Prose Style Symposium, University of Sydney/University of New South Wales, December 2017.

‘Vladimir Nabokov, His Father, and The Bolshevik Revolution’. Presented at Reform, Revolution and Crisis in European History, Culture and Political Thought Conference, University of Sydney, December 2017.

‘The Unexpected Relevance of Nabokov’s Poshlost’ for Contemporary America’. Presented at NewMac Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, July 2017.

 ‘The Shadow-Worlds of Nabokov's Poshlost'’. Presented at Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA) Conference, Australian Catholic University, June 2017.

‘The Not-So-Faint Paramnesic Tang of Nabokov’s Ada’. Presented at the Nabokov Readings Conference, Nabokov Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, July 2015. 

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