David M BetheaDavid Bethea is emeritus Vilas Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Apart from several articles on Nabokov his publications include The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoeically (Selected Essays) (2009); Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (1998) and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (1994). He is also the editor of The Pushkin Handbook (2006, 2013), Puskin Today (1993) and an annotated edition of Pushkin's works in Russian. Read More Read Less