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Vladimir Alexandrov, the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, grew up in New York City in a Russian émigré family and has been teaching courses on Russian literature and culture at Yale since 1986. His research and teaching subjects include 19th- and 20th-century Russian prose; Tolstoy; Nabokov; Russian émigré literature and culture between the wars; cultural and literary theory; and Russian and American relations during the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of “The Black Russian” (see below), which was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in the United Kingdom and won the Yale MacMillan Center Gustav Ranis International Book Prize.
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