Ellendea Proffer Teasley (born 1944) is an American author, publisher, and translator of Russian literature into English.
Proffer Teasley edited a series of well-received photo-biographies, including those devoted to Nabokov, Tsvetaeva and Bulgakov.
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.
[1] The Ardis archives, including Carl and Ellendea Proffer's papers, are held at University of Michigan.
[2] The archive consists of a collection of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondences, books, photographs, and proofs of selected titles.