Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina"
[DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Russian Literature" [PAR] In 1948 he transferred to Cornell University as Associate Professor of Slavic 
Literature where ... in revised form his classroom lectures on Dead Souls and "
The Overcoat.