Charles Nicol

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 Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune^[4], Harper's Magazine^[5], The National Review, The New York Times^[6], Science Fiction Studies^[7], 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

1. ^ "Charles Nicol Nabokov articles from Google Scholar". http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=charles+nicol+nabokov. 
2. ^ ^{a b} 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.
4. ^ "Mark Twain's Alchemy". Chicago Tribune. 1993-06-20. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-06-20/entertainment/9306200012_1_huck-black-african-american-voices-huckleberry-finn. 
5. ^ "Harper's Articles by Charles Nicol". http://harpers.org/subjects/CharlesNicol. 
6. ^ Nicol, Charles (1988-05-01). "Thinking Gives Eugene A Headache". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/books/thinking-gives-eugene-a-headache.html. 
7. ^ "Science Fiction Studies articles by Charles Nicol". http://search.depauw.edu/search?q=charles+nicol+sfs. 

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