Andrew Wachtel

Andrew Wachtel has served as rector of Narxoz University in Almaty, Kazakhstan and President of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Before coming to Central Asia in 2010, he was dean of The Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, his interests range from Russian literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history, and politics to contemporary Central Asia. He translates from Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Slovene, and his translation of Anzhelina Polonskaya’s Paul Klee’s Boat (Zephyr Press, 2012) was short-listed for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.