Yuri Leving

Yuri Leving (Princeton University) specializes in contemporary Russian literature and film, Eastern European cinema, the visual arts, and digital humanities. Leving has published 11 monographs and 9 edited collections, including Nabokov in Motion (2022), A Revolution of the Visible (2018), Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies (2013), Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design (2013), Anatomy of a Short Story (2012), and Keys to ‘The Gift’. A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel (2011). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University and an affiliated research fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is also the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (since 2007). The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) has named Yuri Leving the 2017 recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship, and most recently he became the Guggenheim Fellow (2023).