 | Vladimir E. Alexandrov |
Vladimir E. Alexandrov, newly named as the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, is an expert on 19th- and 20th-century Russian prose -- especially the works of Leo Tolstoy, Andrei Bely and Vladimir Nabokov -- and on literary theory.
He is the author of the books "Andrei Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction," "Nabokov's Otherworld" (which proposes a radical reevaluation of the author's thought and was also translated into Russian) and "Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of 'Anna Karenina,'" as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is also editor of "The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov."
In 1987, Alexandrov organized a conference at Yale titled "The Legacy of Vladimir Nabokov," which brought scholars from around the world to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the author's death. In addition to his graduate and undergraduate courses at Yale, Alexandrov led an Internet course on Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" for alumni via the Alliance for Lifelong Learning jointly sponsored by Yale, Stanford and Oxford universities.
Born in West Germany (and now an American citizen), Alexandrov earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in geology from Queens College of the City University of New York. He went on to earn an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in comparative literature from Princeton University.
He taught in the Slavic Departments at Princeton and Harvard before coming to Yale in 1985 as a visiting associate professor. He joined the Yale faculty the following year as associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and was promoted to full professor in 1990. He was chair of the Slavic department 1991-1997 and its acting chair 2000-2001, and has served as director of both graduate and undergraduate studies. He has chaired or served on numerous University committees, and has been a member of the European Studies Council at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies since 2000.
Yale has awarded Alexandrov two Hilles Publication Grants and the A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Award. He has also received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.
He has served on the advisory council for the Slavic and East European Journal, was associate editor of The Russian Review 1982-1986 and served on the editorial boards of Nabokov Studies and Yale Russian and East European Publications.
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