Deadline to Apply: May 15, 2019
Call for papers (edited volume):
Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era
Editor: Dr. Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
The volume seeks essays that explore the experience of teaching Lolita in the #MeToo Era.
I hope to bring together responses to Nabokov’s art that blend pedagogy and critical analysis. After teaching the novel for years, many of us have witnessed (and continue to witness) a fascinating shift in student responses to the text following the start of the #MeToo movement. Some of us rethought the methodology of presenting Lolita and of navigating productive class discussions. I see this volume as a space to start a conversation about the evolving nature of the intellectual (and emotional) task of bringing Lolita to our students and to share faculty insights and best practices.
Please send a 350 word abstract and a brief CV to:
Dr. Elena Rakhimova-Sommers elena.sommers@rit.edu by May 15th, 2019.
Strong publisher interest.
Check out my recent volume – Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads , Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498503303/Nabokov%E2%80%99s-Women-The-Silent-Sisterhood-of-Textual-Nomads
https://www.amazon.com/Nabokovs-Women-Silent-Sisterhood-Textual/dp/1498503306/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505139780&sr=1-3&keywords=nabokov%27s+women
Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, PhD
Provost’s Faculty Associate for NT/T Faculty
Principal Lecturer in Russian/Global Literature
Department of English, COLA, RIT
elena.sommers@rit.edu
Check out my recent publications:
1. Editor: Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498503303/Nabokov%E2%80%99s-Women-The-Silent-Sisterhood-of-Textual-Nomads
https://www.amazon.com/Nabokovs-Women-Silent-Sisterhood-Textual/dp/1498503306/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505139780&sr=1-3&keywords=nabokov%27s+women
- Contributor,Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia: Brill, 2018:http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004366671