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This entry was posted in 2015 Press: reviews / interviews / features and tagged insect mimicry, nabokov on June 2, 2016 by VN Alexander.

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Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist, writing about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Her honors include the Washington Prize for Fiction for Smoking Hopes, Dallas Observer‘s “Best of 2003” for Naked Singularity, and the Literary Fiction Book Review award for Locus Amoenus, which was also a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee.

Alexander is also a philosopher of science, author of The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities, and was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar at the Digital Humanities Lab at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia. She is a member of the Third Way of Evolution group and her work in evolutionary theory appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art, published by Yale University Press, which was one of Nature's top 20 books of 2017. See full CV.

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