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Charles Nicol

Charles Nicol

American literary scholar (1940–2020)

Charles Nicol (1940 – July 26, 2020) [1] is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov,[2] and also wrote widely on fiction (particularly science fiction and detective fiction) and popular culture. He was a professor in the Department of English at Indiana State University.

Academic and publishing history

Nicol published on Nabokov since 1967.[3] In 1970 he completed a PhD at Bowling Green State University with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov.[4] He was elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society twice (including as its first president).[3] In 1984 he became a Fulbright senior lecturer.[5]

He wrote for The American Spectator, The Atlantic,[6] The Baltimore Sun,[7] Bookletter,[8] The Chicago Tribune,[9] Harper's Magazine,[10] The Kansas City Star, The National Review, The New York Times,[11] The Saturday Review, Science Fiction Studies,[12] 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. [1]
    Board of Trustees of Indiana State University (2020-10-23). "In Memoriam" (PDF). Indiana State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Agenda for October 23 2020 page 69.
  2. [2]
    "Charles Nicol Nabokov articles from Google Scholar".
  3. [3]
    Charles Nicol: Buzzwords and Dorophonemes. How Words Proliferate and Things Decay in Ada. In: Gavriel Shapiro: Nabokov at Cornell. Ithaca, N.Y. 2003
  4. [4]
    Nicol, Charles David. Types of Formal Structure in Selected Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ph.D. thesis, Bowling Green State University, 1970.
  5. [5]
    "Charles Nicol Fulbright page".
  6. [6]
    "Atlantic articles by Charles Nicol". The Atlantic.
  7. [7]
    "Baggott's 'Madam': nuns, hustlers, show people". 21 September 2003.
  8. [8]
    Nicol, Nancy; Nicol, Charles (1975-02-17). "Three's A Crowd". Bookletter. p. 10.
  9. [9]
    "Mark Twain's Alchemy". Chicago Tribune. 1993-06-20.
  10. [10]
    "Harper's Articles by Charles Nicol".
  11. [11]
    Nicol, Charles (1988-05-01). "Thinking Gives Eugene A Headache". The New York Times.
  12. [12]
    "Science Fiction Studies articles by Charles Nicol". Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
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