Stephanie Sandler is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her works include Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (1989); Commemorating Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet (2004); and, with Andrew Kahn, Irina Reyfman, and Mark Lipovetsky, A History of Russian Literature (2018), as well as the co-edited volumes Self and Story in Russian History (2000, with Laura Engelstein), Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture (1993, 1998, with Jane Costlow and Judith Vowles).