Yuri Leving

Yuri Leving (Princeton University) specializes in contemporary Russian literature and film, Eastern European cinema, the visual arts, and digital humanities. Leving has published 11 monographs and 7 edited collections, including Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design (2013) and Nabokov in Motion. Modernity and Movement (2022). In his scholarly works, he often examines the visual poetics of the text, anything from book covers to children’s animation and celebrity Instagram stories. He is also a documentary filmmaker and a photographer (https://www.yurileving.com/).