IRENA KSIEZOPOLSKA, Assistant Professor at Vistula University, teaches British and American literature and culture. She published the monograph The Web of Sense: Patterns of Involution in Selected Works of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov (2012). She also authored many essays and articles on 19th, 20th and 21st Century writers. She is currently working on a book on Ian McEwan’s fictions.

MIKOŁAJ WIŚNIEWSKI is an Associate Professor in American literature at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. He defended his PhD thesis at Warsaw University in 2007. He also holds an MA degree in philosophy from Warsaw University. In 2004/2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published essays on Nabokov in Polish and English (“Ada: Make‍-Believe Stories” in Nabokov Online Journal, vol. VIII, 2014, “Nabokov’s ‘Screen Memory’” in Nabokov Studies 15, 2017).

LEONA TOKER, Professor Emerita in the English Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (Cornell University Press, 1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (University Press of Kentucky, 1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (Indiana University Press, 2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Ohio State University Press, 2010), Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading (Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2019), and numerous articles on English, American, and Russian literature. She is the editor of Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (Garland, 1994) and co-editor of Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H. M. Daleski (Peter Lang, 1996) as well as of Knowledge and Pain (Rodopi, 2012). She has founded and is editing Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, a semiannual academic periodical published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

STEPHEN H. BLACKWELL is Professor of Russian, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A past president and current Board member of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, he is the author of Zina's Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift,The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science and co-editor of Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art. His recent work explores the roles of Pushkin and Dostoevsky in Nabokov's narrative strategies. He is currently working on a monograph on trees in Nabokov and collaborating on a book of translations of Yuli Aikhenvald's essays into English, among other projects.

PÉTER TAMÁS is a doctoral student in the Modern English and American Literature program at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He is writing his dissertation on the presentation of ethical concepts in Lolita. He has published several articles and reviews on Nabokov, in the Nabokov Online Journal among other journals. He is a Fulbright alumni.

DANA DRAGUNOIU is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her monograph Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism was published in 2011 by Northwestern University Press. She is currently working on a study of Nabokov’s ethics and serves as General Editor of TheNabokovian.org. In addition to her work on Nabokov, she has published essays on J. M. Coetzee, Ernest Hemingway, Stendhal, and contemporary film.

DAVID POTTER is a postgraduate research student and tutor in the English department at the University of Sydney. Though still an early-career academic, he has published a long-form review-essay about the Gennady Barabtarlo-edited collection Insomniac Dreams for Sydney Review of Books, and has presented at the annual Nabokov Readings conference at the Vladimir Nabokov Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

ADAM LIPSZYC, Professor, works in the Insitute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science. He teaches in Collegium Civitas and at the Franz Kafka University of Muri. He has published five books and co-edited five others, mostly focusing on traces of Jewish theology in the 20th century thought and literature. His most recent publications include a study of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language and justice (Justice on the Tip of the Tongue, 2012) and a study of Paul Celan’s poetry (The Time of the Poem, 2015), as well as a collection of essays on Polish literature (Red Letters, 2018). He edited and co-translated into Polish two volumes of essays, one by Gershom Scholem and one by Walter Benjamin.

GERARD DE VRIES is an independent scholar who published many articles on Nabokov’s work in American, French and Russian academic journals since his first paper in Russian Literature Triquarterly in 1991. With D. Barton Johnson he wrote Nabokov and the Art of Painting (Amsterdam 2006) and recently his monograph Silent Love. The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight has been published (Boston 2016).

ANDRZEJ KSIEZOPOLSKI has a degree in history and is a graduate of the Institute of History, University of Warsaw, where he was researching the Russian emigration in the aftermath of World War I and the October Revolution. He is currently is a doctoral student at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His dissertation topic is (Re)definitions of History in Julian Barnes’ Fiction and his research focuses on the use of history and time in contemporary British and American fiction. He published essays on Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Vladimir Nabokov (on the connection of the plot in Glory with “TRUST” affair).

AKIKO NAKATA is Professor of English at Nanzan University in Japan. She is a founding member of the Nabokov Society of Japan. She co-translated into Japanese, with Tadashi Wakashima, Transparent Things (2002). Her publications in English on Nabokov include “Rose and Aquamarine: Liza in Pnin,” The Nabokovian 48 (2002), “Repetition and Ambiguity: Reconsidering Mary,” Zembla (2005), “A Failed Reader Redeemed: ‘Spring in Fialta’ and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight,” Nabokov Studies 11 (2007/2008), “Some Spiritual Subtexts Hidden in Transparent Things,” Revising Nabokov Revising: The Proceedings of the International Nabokov Conference Kyoto (2010), “The Last Muse Escapes the Text,” Nabokov Online Journal V (2012) and “Narrating her own absence: the narrator and protagonist of ‘A Slice of Life’,” Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art (2016).

CARLO COMANDUCCI is the author of Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator and has published various articles on psychoanalytic theory, film theory and the phenomenology of perception, technology, memory, and power. He is co-editor of the volume Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story.

VYATCHESLAV BART, M.A., is an English‍-language Russian fiction writer, residing in Israel, and an advanced doctoral candidate in English Literature at TAU. In both fictional and academic work he focuses on the artistic creative process and on art interpreted as an epistemological and ontological concept. His disstertation focuses on “anti‍-criticism” – the refusal by a category of peculiarly anti‍-rationalist writers and artists to accept academic criticism and theory. Academic publications include: “Critical Illusions: Anti‍-Criticism in Vladimir Nabokov as a Practice Which Originates in the Early Renaissance” and “Futurist, Decadent, and Pagan Influences in Transhumanism: The Dangers of Godlike Creativity.”

OLGA DMITRIENKO, Professor in the Department of Book Edition, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design. Philologist. The title of her D.Sc. dissertation (defended in 2017 at the Institute of Russian Literature Pushkin House, Russian Academy of Science) is Poetics of Nabokov’s Prose Written in Russian: Representation of Religious-Philosophic and Religious-Mystical Ideas. Key publications include the monograph Сквозь витражное окно. Поэтика русскоязычной прозы Набокова [Through the Stained Glass. Poetics of Nabokov’s Russian Novels] (2014); articles “The Myth on Heavenly Nymphs and Cloudy Virgins in ‘The Spring in Fialta’ by V. Nabokov” (2004); “Automatic Writing and Traditions of Glossolalia in the Novel Invitation to a Beheading” (2014), etc.

TATIANA PONOMAREVA, Director of the Vladimir Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg since 2002, a board member of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. She organizes and speaks at the annual “Nabokov Readings” international conference. She initiated the publication and has since edited and contributed to the Набоковский сборник, a bilingual journal of Nabokov studies and edited selected works by V. D. Nabokov До и после Временного правительства (Симпозиум, 2016). She is now working on a biographical study of the Nabokov family that will include new material from private archives. Apart from academic publications, she also gave many interviews and wrote articles for various Russian and foreign media, initiated a number of art exhibitions (painting, graphic art, photography) on Nabokov themes and created the concept and acted as a script consultant for the documentary film “Nabokov: The Russian Roots.”