Sandra Freels (1981) Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Professor of Russian. Ph.D. 1976
Stanford University

Sandra Freels has taught Russian language, literature, and cultural history at Portland State since 1979. She is the author of three textbooks: Focus on Russian (1991, 1996), The Golden Age (1996), and Russian in Use (2007). Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures since 2000, Dr. Freels also directs the PSU Russian Language Flagship Partner Program. Dr. Freels is the recipient of PSU’s George Hoffman award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service (1999) and of the college of Liberal Arts and Science’s John Elliot Allen award for excellence in teaching (2003).

Published Books:

• Focus on Russia- 2nd Edition
• The Golden Age: Readings in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century
• Russian in Use