Charles Nicol

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.

He wrote for The American Spectator, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun,[5] Bookletter,[6] The Chicago Tribune,[7] Harper's Magazine,[8] The Kansas City Star, The National Review, The New York Times,[9] The Saturday Review, Science Fiction Studies,[10] 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. 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. "Charles Nicol Nabokov articles from Google Scholar".
  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. Nicol, Charles David. Types of Formal Structure in Selected Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ph.D. thesis, Bowling Green State University, 1970.
  5. "Baggott's 'Madam': nuns, hustlers, show people".
  6. Nicol, Nancy; Nicol, Charles (1975-02-17). "Three's A Crowd". Bookletter. p. 10.
  7. "Mark Twain's Alchemy". Chicago Tribune. 1993-06-20.
  8. "Harper's Articles by Charles Nicol".
  9. Nicol, Charles (1988-05-01). "Thinking Gives Eugene A Headache". The New York Times.
  10. "Science Fiction Studies articles by Charles Nicol". Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
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