Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University. His other major publications include Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993), Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” (1998), and The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009). He also edited Nabokov at Cornell (2003) and contributed over sixty articles and book chapters to various scholarly periodicals and critical collections. He received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Kennan Institute in Washington, DC.
