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Yuri Leving (PhD The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is involved in research on visual arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has taught at The George Washington University and is now at Dalhousie University. His main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and film. Leving is the author of Train Station – Garage – Hangar: Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism (2004, Short-listed for Andrey Bely Prize). He also co-edited two volumes of articles, Eglantine: Collection of Philological Essays to Honor the Sixtieth Anniversary of Roman Timenchik (2005) and Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs (2006).

“A virtual cornucopia of Nabokoviana! With its impressive diversity of contributors and stylish format, Yuri Leving’s The Goalkeeper promises to be the place to look for the latest on one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and most stimulating thinkers.”— David Bethea, Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of Oxford

• Slide Tackle (from the editor)Team (about the contributors)Field: ForumNabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the Field and Scholarly CooperationFirst Time Ball: Russian NabokovOrhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on DostoevskySacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a BeheadingIrony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a BeheadingNabokov's Invitation to Plato's BeheadingCenter Circle: ForumInstitutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, ExhibitionNarrowing the Angle: MemoirA Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir VladimirovichCorner Arc: English NabokovNabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander PopePicturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale FireTwo Notes on Pale FireA Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery in Visual MediaGoal Box: InterviewAn Interview with Dmitiri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye, ""Laura is Not Even the Original's Name."" One Touch Pass: Nabokov across the Lines""Which is Sebastian?"" What's in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name? Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's LolitaNabokov and Prince D.SMirskyCorner Flag: InterviewAn Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving, ""Lost in Transit."" Midfield Line: ForumTeaching NabokovRed Card: Archive""The book is dazzlingly brilliant..But"": Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The GiftDangerous Play: Conference""Revising Nabokov Revising"" Nabokov Conference in KyotoPenalty Area: Book ReviewsChasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl all Over AgainApproaches to Teaching Nabokov's LolitaVersus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: P'esy, lektsii o dramePekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four EssaysEnd Line: BibliographyIndex of Names.