OFFICE:

DEGREES:

• M.A. (Romance Philology), University of Warsaw (Poland), 1963
• Ph.D. (Comparative Literature: Polish-French-Russian), University of California, Berkeley, 1974

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor Carpenter's research focuses on 20th century Polish literature with special interest in poetry and translation. Her other interests include Polish and European avant-garde, and modern European drama and poetry.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Professor Carpenter's courses include Polish literature and language as well as courses in Comparative literature (she is Associate Faculty of the Program in Comparative Literature).

• Polish Translation Workshop: Pol 432/832
• Polish Literature from Middle Ages to 1863: Pol 425
• Polish Literature from 1863 till Present: Pol 426
• Seminar in Polish Literature (topics include Modern Polish Literature, Polish Twentieth-Century Novel in the European Context and Postwar Polish Literature and Politics): Pol 432/832
• Theater of the Absurd: CompLit 731/Russian 861
• Western Drama from Tragedy to Farce: CompLit 336
• Arts and Cultures of Central Europe: Slav 225
• City in Literature: Slav 151-002

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Selected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert. Selected and translated with John Carpenter. Oxford: OUP, 1977.
• The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1939, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1983.
• "The Prose Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert: Forging a New Genre," Slavic and East European Journal, 28 (1984), 76-88.
• Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with John Carpenter. New York: Ecco Press, 1985. Oxford: OUP, 1987.
• "Zbigniew Herbert, the Poet as Witness," The Polish Review, 32 (1987), 5-14.
• Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1989.
• Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with John Carpenter. New York: Ecco Press, 1991.
• "The Lesson of Art: Zbigniew Herbert's Essays," Cross Currents, 11 (1992), 127-138.
• Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with John Carpenter. Oxford: OUP, 1993.
• "Wislawa Szymborska: The Importance of the Unimportant," World Literature Today, vol. 71 no. 1 (Winter 1997), 8-12.
• Elegy for Departure and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with John Carpenter. New York: Ecco Press, 1999.
• The King of the Ants by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with John Carpenter. New York: Ecco Press, 1999.
• "Czeslaw Milosz - The Scholar," Partisan Review, vol. LXVI no. 1 (1999), pp. 90-93.
• "The Gift Returned," World Literature Today, special issue "Celebrating Czeslaw Milosz," vol. 73, no. 4 (Autumn 1999), pp. 631-636.
• Translations and "Afterword" (together with J. Carpenter), Zbigniew Herbert's Poezje wybrane/Selected Poems, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2000.
• "Zbigniewa Herberta lekcja sztuki," chapter in Poznawanie Herberta 2, ed. A. Franaszek, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2000.
• An entry on Zbigniew Herbert in Contemporary World Dictionary of Literary Biographies 4: South Slavic and Eastern European Writing, 2000.
• Translations (with J. Carpenter) of Zbigniew Herbert's individual poems appeared in the following magazines: The New York Review of Books, March 9, 2000; and May 25, 2000; The Paris Review, no. 154, Spring 2000; The Manhattan Review vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2000; Chicago Review, October 2000; Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2000.
• Translations (with J. Carpenter) of two poems by Bronislaw Maj, Chicago Review, October 2000.
• Czeslaw Milosz's To Begin Where I Am.  Selected Essays. Edited and Introduced by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline Levine.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

Updated 01/08/02