Stephanie Sandler

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Department Chair

Barker Center 321 - 495-3956 - ssandler[at]fas.harvard.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11-12 p.m., and by appt.

Education: B.A., Princeton University, 1975; Ph.D., Yale University, 1982.

Interests: Russian and American poetry, particularly contemporary poetry; film and poetry; feminist and psychoanalytic theories; Pushkin; comparative approaches to Russian literature; cultural studies.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Freshman Seminar 34e (Fear Itself)
• Slavic 186 (Poetry after Brodsky: How Russian Is It?)

Spring:
• Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 11 (Poetry Without Borders)

Books:
• Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet, Stanford University Press, 2004.
• Self and Story in Russian History, edited with Laura Engelstein, Cornell University Press, 2000.
• Rereading Russian Poetry, edited collection, Yale University Press, 1999.
• Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture, edited with Jane Costlow and Judith Vowles, Stanford University Press, 1993; paperback edition 1998.
• Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile, Stanford University Press, 1989; translated into Russian as Dalekie radosti: Aleksandr Pushkin i tvorchestvo izgnaniia, Academic Project, St. Petersburg, 1998.

Recent Articles:
• "Mirrors and Metarealists: Olga Sedakova and Ivan Zhdanov" Slavonica, vol. 12, no. 1 (2006), pp. 3-23.
• "The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee as Epic Trauma," Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, ed. Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, pp. 193-213.
• "Seeing and Knowing in Protazanov's Film The Queen of Spades," Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson, ed. Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, and Michael Wachtel. Stanford Slavic Studies, vols. 29-30 (2005), pp. 279-290.
• "Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian, and the Persistence of Romanticism," Contemporary Literature, vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 18-45.
• "Pushkin and Identity," National Identity in Russian Culture: an Introduction, ed. Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 197-216.

Notes & Translations:
• "Introduzione," Alexandra Petrova, Altri fuochi. Rome: Crocetti, 2005
• Poems by Elena Shvarts, Nina Iskrenko, and Elena Fanailova, Russian Women Poets, Modern Poetry in Translation, no. 20 (2002), ed. Valentina Polukhina, pp. 56-57, 76-79, 212-213. Revised and re-issued as An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets, ed. Valentina Polukhina and Daniel Weissbort, University of Iowa Press, 2005.

Current Project:
• Breaking Down the Walls: Russian Poetry after 1972