Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era

Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students in the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece, Lolita ? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of Lolita ’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This stude