Stanley Mitchell (12 March 1932, Clapton, London — 16 October 2011, Highbury, London) was a British translator, academic, and author, noted for his English verse translation of Alexander Pushkin's Russian verse novel Eugene Onegin.
Stanley Mitchell was born in London of immigrant Jewish parents in a family in which Yiddish was often spoken. His father was born in the Ukraine and, his mother's parents in Belarus. He attended Christ College School in Finchley, North London, which included a period of evacuation to Biggleswade during World War II.
He did national service during which he learnt German and Russian and went on to read modern languages at Lincoln College Oxford specialising in French, German and Russian. At Oxford he joined the Communist Party and helped to edit the journal Oxford Left.
His specialist subjects were Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history and cultural studies. He held teaching posts at the universities of Birmingham, Essex, Sussex, San Diego California, McGill Montreal, Dar es Salaam Tanzania. Polytechnic of Central London (latterly University of Westminster) and Camberwell School of Art. At Essex he took an active part in the student protests of May 1968, participating in teach-ins as part of the "Free University of Essex".
