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Alfred Appel

Emeritus Professor of English

University Hall Room 215
Telephone: (847) 491-7294
Fax: (847) 467-1545


Alfred Appel, Jr., (Ph.D. Columbia) is the editor of The Annotated Lolita (rev. ed. 1991) and author of Nabokov's Dark Cinema (1974). He has also authored Signs of Life (1983), a work on American photography and popular culture of the past five decades, The Art of Celebration: The Expression of Joy in 20th Century Art, Literature, Photography and Music (Knopf, 1992), and Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce.

Publications by Alfred Appel

Art of CelebrationJazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce

Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West 1922-1972 (Rev)

LolitaThe Annotated Lolita

Nabokov's Dark Cinema

Signs of Life

Art of Celebration: Twentieth-Century Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, and Jazz


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