Stephanie Sandler

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Stephanie Sandler earned a BA in Russian literature from Princeton University and both an MA and a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University. 

Sandler is the author of The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022 (Princeton University Press, 2024); Commemorating Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet (Stanford University Press, 2004); and Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford University Press, 1998). She has also edited, coauthored, and co-translated numerous books of literary scholarship, including A History of Russian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2018), coauthored with Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, and Irina Reyfman. 

Sandler is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.