Elsa Court is a French-born writer. She teaches American Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her first book The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography (Palgrave) is forthcoming in 2020.
Elsa Court on why Vladimir Nabokov immersed himself in the all-American world of roadside service stations.
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