Priscilla Meyer

Wesleyan University

Professor of Russian Language and Literature
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Lolita and the Genre of the Literary Double: Does Quilty Exist?, LOLITA (2009)

Anglophonia and Optimysticism: Sebastian Knight’s Bookshelves, Russian Literature and the West: A Tribute for David M. Bethea (2008)

How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (2008)

Teaching Lolita Through Pushkin’s Onegin, Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita (2008)

The Spirit of Cynthia Vane, The Nabokovian (2008)

Anna Karenina, Rousseau and the Gospels, Russian Review (2007)

Carmencita: Blok’s Del’mas and Nabokov’s Shulgina: The Evolution of Eros in Nabokov’s Work, Festschrift for Alexander Dolinin, on his 60th Birthday (2007)

Life as Annotation: Sebastian Knight, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Vladimir Nabokov, Cycnos (2007)

Annotation bridges and differentiates the interpenetrating realms of life and art. A literary character may...

The Moose of the Apocalypse: Andrei Bitov’s Man in Landscape, Russian Literature (2007)

Nabokov's Short Fiction, The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005)

How the Bronze Horseman Was Made: Pushkin and ‘L’inondation a Nantes’, Two Hundred Years of Pushkin, Volume II (Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument) (2003)

An Author of His Time: Lermontov Rewrites George Sand, New Zealand Slavonic Journal (2002)

Foreword, Anna Karenina (2002)

Karolina Pavlova and Louise Colet: A Cross-cultural Study, Karolina Pavlova (2001)

Nabokov and the Spirits: Dolorous Haze--Hazel Shade, Nabokov’s World (2001)

The Real Hound, the Real Knight: Tom Stoppard Reads Nabokov, Nabokov’s World (2001)

The Fantastic in the Everyday: Gogol’s ‘Nevsky Prospect’ and Hoffmann‘s ‘A New Year’s Eve Adventure, Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia (2000)

Crime and Punishment and Jules Janin’s La Confession, Russian Review (1999)

Supernatural Doubles: Vii and The Nose, The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth Century Russian Literature (1999)

Nabokov’s Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Despair: Thesis and Antithesis, Nobokov Studies (1998)

Dostoevsky’s Modern Gospel: Crime and Punishment and the Gospel of John, Dostoevsky Studies (1998)

Vasily Aksenov’s Ozhog, Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998)

Infinite Reflections in Pale Fire: The Danish Connection (Hans Andersen and Isak Dinesen) (with Jeff Hoffman), Russian Literature (1997)

Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Polemic with Madame Bovary, Russian Review (1995)

Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Primer (1995)

Nabokov’s Critics: a Review Article, Modern Philology (1994)

Interview with Dubravka Ugresic, Crosscurrents (1993)

Review: Sidney D. Drell and Sergei P. Kapitza, ed., Sakharov Remembered: A Tribute by Friends and Colleagues (with William Trousdale), American Journal of Physics (1992)

Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin as Template for Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, Proceedings of the IV World Congress of Slavists (1992)

The German Motif in Nabokov’s Early Work, A Small Alpine Form Nabokov’s Short Stories (1992)

Review: Brian Boyd, Nabokov, The Russian Years, Slavic and East European Journal (1991)

Review: Gennadi Barabtarlo, Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov’s "Pnin", Russian Review (1990)

Review: Leona Taker, Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures, Slavic Review (1990)

Reflections of Shakespeare: Pale Fire and Cultural Synthesis, Russian Literature Tri-quarterly (1988)

Nabokov’s Non-Fiction as Reference Library: Igor, Ossian and Kinbote, Slavic Review (1988)

Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov‘s “Pale Fire" (1988)

Foreword, The Collected Works of Vasilij Aksenov (1988)

Pale Fire as Cultural Astrolabe: The Sagas of the North, Russian Review (1988)

Review: D. Barton Johnson, Worlds in Regression: Some Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, Slavic Review (1988)

Etymology and Heraldry: Nabokov’s Zemblan Translations, Texas Studies in Literature and Language (1987)

Review: Zinovy Zinik, Russkaya Sluzhba, Ulbandus Review (1987)

Review: I. Grekova, The Ship of Widows, The New York Times Book Review (1987)

Review: Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, ed. George Gibian, Slavic and East European Journal (1987)

Review: Village Prose and Cons, Times Literary Supplement (1986)

Aksenov and Stalinism: Political, Moral, and Literary Power, Slavic and East European Journal (1986)

Basketball, God, and the Ringo Kid: Philistinism and the Ideal in Aksenov’s Short Stories, Festschrift to Honor Aksenov on his 50th Birthday (1986)

Review: Carl and Ellendea Proffer, eds., The Barsukov Triangle, Slavic Review (1986)

Review: Laurie Clancie, The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, Russian Review (1986)

Nabokov: Sintez kul’tur, Obozrenie (1985)

Review: Olga Matich and Michael Heim, eds., The Third Wave: Literature in Emigration, Slavic Review (1985)

Review: Pekka Tammi, Problems of Nabokov’s Poetics, Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1985)

Nabokov’s Lolita and Pushkin’s Onegin--McAdam, McEve and McFate, The achievements of Vladimir Nabokov : essays, studies, reminiscences, and stories (1984)

Yury Kazakov, Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (1982)

Dostoevsky, ‘Mister Prokharchin,’ and Naturalist Poetics, Russian Literature (1981)

Review: Milton Ehre and Fruma Gottschalk, eds., The Theater of Nikolai Gogol, Slavic Review (1981)

Review: A. Platonov, Kotlovan, trans. Mirra Ginsburg, Slavic Review (1976)

Anatolii Gladilin and Soviet Prose of the 1960s,, Critique (1975)

Review: Victor Terras, The Young Dostoevsky, Slavic Review (1974)

Aksenov and Soviet Prose of the 1960s, Russian Literature Tri-quarterly (1973)

Bibliography of works by and about Vasilii Aksenov, Russian Literature Tri-quarterly (1973)

Hoist by the Socialist Realist Petard: American Interpretations of Soviet Literature, Russian Literature Tri-quarterly (1971)

Review: Novyi mir (with Greta Slobin), Russian Literature Tri-quarterly (1971)