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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Ellendea Proffer Teasley</b> (born 1944) is an American author, publisher, and translator of <a href="Russian_literature" title="Russian literature">Russian literature</a> into English.

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<p>She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University, taught at Wayne State University and University of Michigan, Dearborn. She is a well-known <a href="Mikhail_Bulgakov" title="Mikhail Bulgakov">Bulgakov</a> expert, translator and publisher. She is known for <i>Mikhail Bulgakov: Life & Work</i> (1984); translations of Bulgakov's plays and prose; numerous articles and introductions, most prominently the Notes and Afterword to the Burgin-O'Connor translation of Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita.</i>

</p><p>She married <a href="Carl_Ray_Proffer" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Ray Proffer">Carl R. Proffer</a> (1938–1984), and co-founded <a href="Ardis_Publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Ardis Publishers">Ardis Publishers</a> in 1971, a publishing house specializing in Russian literature, both in English and Russian. As a publisher, she was responsible for the collected works of Bulgakov in Russian, which then triggered a Soviet edition. Proffer Teasley edited a series of well-received photo-biographies, including those devoted to <a href="Nabokov" class="mw-redirect" title="Nabokov">Nabokov</a>, <a href="Tsvetaeva" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsvetaeva">Tsvetaeva</a> and Bulgakov. Her memoir of Joseph Brodsky, <i>Brodsky Among Us,</i> was published in English in 2017, after the Russian translation was published in Moscow in 2015, where it became a bestseller.

</p><p>Ellendea Proffer was on the first judges' panel for the Booker Russian Novel Prize, and in 1989 received a Macarthur Fellowship for her work with Ardis.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The Ardis archives, including Carl and Ellendea Proffer's papers, are held at <a href="University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

The archive consists of a collection of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondences, books, photographs, and proofs of selected titles.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lectures_in_English">Lectures in English</h2></div>

<ul><li>"One Book, Two Cultures: Brodsky Among Us" (Harvard Davis Center, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuBDigwrQw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuBDigwrQw</a></li>

<li>"How Censorship Leads to Tamizdat [publishing abroad]" (Tamizdat Conference, Hunter College, NYC, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPmbJaKCGg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPmbJaKCGg</a></li>

<li>"Writing in a Time of Terror: Mikhail Bulgakov" (Dillard University, New Orleans, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://vimeo.com/326628255">https://vimeo.com/326628255</a></li>

<li>"Ardis: Americans Publishing Russian Literature during the Cold War" (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myiisMjCIwg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myiisMjCIwg</a></li>

<li>"Totalitarianism: Myth & Reality" (Duke University, Durham, 2024)</li></ul>

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<ul><li>"<span title="Russian-language text"><i lang="ru-Latn">Brodskii sredi nas</i></span>" (Dostoevsky Library, Moscow, 2015) with Anton Dolin. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYImQyhi5U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYImQyhi5U</a></li>

<li>"<span title="Russian-language text"><i lang="ru-Latn">O knige Karla Proffera «Bez kupior»</i></span>" (MMOMA, Moscow, 2017) with Anton Dolin). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2XBbQ9Iss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2XBbQ9Iss</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>

<ul><li>1989 <a href="MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Fellows Program</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/379/">"Ellendea Proffer Teasley - MacArthur Foundation"</a>. <i>www.macfound.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-08-12</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li>Boyd, Brian. <i>Nabokov: the Later Years</i></li>

<li>Vasily Aksyonov, <i>In Search of Melancholy Baby</i></li>

<li>Lev Kopelev & Raya Orlova, <i>We Lived in Moscow</i></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqQgsgKNNII">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqQgsgKNNII</a> (CBS Morning Show on Proffer, 1983)</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpGk_HBTHE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpGk_HBTHE</a> (“Russian Visa” [in Russian] program on Ardis; interview with Ellendea Proffer)</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771fsa2fpGM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771fsa2fpGM</a> (Ardis Publishers interviews 1999)</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stanford.io/1yJGSLh">Cynthia Haven,"The Book that's rocking Russia: Ellendea Proffer's Brodsky Among Us is a bestseller," The Book Haven, 20 April 2015</a>. Discussion of Russian publication of book with Corpus.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/joseph-brodsky-darker-and-brighter/">https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/joseph-brodsky-darker-and-brighter/</a> Cynthia Haven, "Joseph Brodsky, Darker and Brighter: A spellbinding new biography rescues the poet from sentimentality and kitsch," <i>The Nation</i>, March 24, 2016.</li></ul>

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