Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College (Academic Studies Press, 2025), edited by Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer, features essays by BC undergraduate and graduate students who took Shrayer’s seminar on the Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov. The volume also features contributions from Shrayer and his English Department colleagues Professors Kevin Ohi and Eric Weiskott. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The student/alumni contributors are: Nicholas Adler, Megumi DeMond, Jared Hackworth, Nina Khaghany, Matthew Lyberg, Brendan McCourt, Katie Pelkey, Samuel L. Peterson, Ciara Spencer, and Fiona Steacy. More from BC News.