'Lolita' Turns 50: 2 Scholars Reflect on Teaching the 'Difficult' Novel

By PETER MONAGHAN

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's acclaimed but still controversial novel Lolita. Galya Diment, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Washington, and Zoran Kuzmanovich, a professor of English at Davidson College and the editor of the journal Nabokov Studies, have edited a collection of essays on teaching the novel. The collection will appear next year in a Modern Language Association series on the