Charles Nicol
Charles Nicol is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov, and also writes widely on 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. In 1970 he completed a PhD at Bowling Green State University with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He was elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society twice. In 1984 he became a Fulbright senior lecturer.
He has written for
The American Spectator,
The Atlantic,
The Baltimore Sun,
The Chicago Tribune,
Harper's Magazine,
The Kansas City Star,
The National Review,
The New York Times,
The Saturday Review,
Science Fiction Studies,
and The Washington Post.Major works
- J.E. Rivers and Charles Nicol, Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work
- Charles Nicol and Gennady Barabtarlo, A small alpine form: studies in Nabokov's short fiction
