Alexander Dolinin (University of Wisconsin), specialist on 19th and 20th century Russian literature and author of the forthcoming book A Great Unknown: Vladimir Nabokov as a Russian Writer.

Galya Diment (University of Washington), Vice President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and author of Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (1997).

Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College), poet and scholar, author of many articles on Nabokov, Bunin, and others, as well as The World of Nabokov's Stories (1999).

Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale University), author of Nabokov's Otherworld (1991) and editor of The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (1995).

Gennady Barabtarlo (University of Missouri), author of Aerial Views: Essays on Nabokov's Art and Metaphysics (1993) and Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov's Pnin (1989).

Joanna Trzeciak (University of Chicago), most recently the translator of Tomek Tryzna's novel Panna Nikt (Miss Nobody) into English (1999).

Stacy Schiff (writer, New York), author of biographies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1994) and Véra Nabokov (1999).