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Named Professor of Russian and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College in 1995, Sandler teaches a Slavic department seminar called "Poetic Self-Creation in Twentieth-Century Russia...
Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Stephanie Sandler will join the Faculty as a professor of Russian Studies, effective next spring...
...Several graduate students in the Slavic department lauded Sandler's unique dynamism as an instructor...
Likewise, senior fellows are not are among the prestigious scholars at Harvard. Among the current crop are the society's Chair and Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (not to mention Dean of Undergraduate Education) William M. Todd III and Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick...
...called the name of Lisa Marie Presley's fiance, John Oszajca, "unpronounceable" [PEOPLE, Feb. 14]. But if 40 million people can pronounce the name Oszajca correctly, why can't you? Please don't let your Anglo-Saxon bias impair your ability to pronounce Slavic names, especially Polish ones. Not being able to pronounce a name correctly denigrates and debases not only its bearer but also the country of its origin. Ethnocentricity isn't funny in our rapidly shrinking global village. We all need to make the effort to pronounce names correctly and not make fun of them. Because, frankly...