Prof. Leona Toker

Joy in good writing.

Narrative theory, stylistics, philology, moral philosophy, history.

Nabokov, Joyce, 18th and 19th-century British literature, 20th-century documentary prose, in particular narratives of concentration camp survivors. All these are parts of the same world, not different universes.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4107-233X

Graduate course taught in the spring semester 2023-2024: "Women's Education in Austen and Brontë"

Graduate course planned for the spring semester 2024-2025: "Midlife Nabokov."

Virtual book-launch (recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBAqAz3JW8&feature=youtu.be

"Newbooks" podcast https://newbooksnetwork.com/gulag-literature-and-the-literature-of-nazi-camps

Interview at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AimQ4oAh4PU

Revisiting Vilnius University, September 2016
Writing Workshop at East China Normal Univeresity, Shanghai, January 2016
At the Nabokov conference in Warsaw, September 2016
Teaching Excellence Certificate from Students with disabilities, August 2016
Wadi David, near Ein Gedi, 2015
With Prof. Chen Maoqing at the entrance to the Jewish Museum of Shanghai, January 2016
with Nabokov scholar Gerard de Vries in front of Polin, the Warsaw Jewish museum, September 2016
Memories: sunset at the Baltic (Palanga, Lithuania)
Brussels, above the train station

Charlotte Brontës Rue Isabelle is all hidden by buildings now: down these steps and to the left
With Japanese-literature scholar Tadashi Wakashima, President of the Nabokov Society of Japan, May 2018.

On the bridge across the Uji river. The last part of "The Tale of Genji" is set in this region.