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Dept of Slavic Lang & Lits • 3040 Modern Languages Building • University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1275 • (734) 763-5715
bogdana@umich.edu

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

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

Typical Fall courses:

• Polish Literature in English to 1890: Polish 325

Typical Winter courses:

• 20th Century Polish Literature: Polish 326 [syllabus]  [flier]  [LSA course guide]

Past courses include:

• Art and Culture of Central Europe: Slavic 225
• Polish Literature Up To 1900: Polish 325
• The Power of Drama and the Drama of Power: Polish 432/832
• Paris, St. Petersburg, New York: City in Literature: Slavic 151
• Polish Translation Workshop: Pol 432/832
• Polish Literature from Middle Ages to 1863: Pol 325
• Seminar in Polish Literature (topics include Modern Polish Literature, Polish Twentieth-Century Novel in the European Context and Postwar Polish Literature and Politics, and more.
• 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

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Research/Publications
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.

Books:

• (in progress) Between Dada and Conctructivism: Polish Poetic Avant-garde, essay Zbigniew Herbert: Ethics and Poetry
• To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz, edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. xvi + 470 pages.
• Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry Michigan Slavic Publications,1989. xxiv + 567 pages.
• The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1939 Seattle and London University of Washington Press, 1983. xviii + 234 pages.

Book Chapters:

• "The Gift Returned: Czeslaw Milosz and American Poetry," Living in Translation. Polish Writers in America, Halina Stephan, ed., Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2003: 45-75.
• "Recepcja poezji Czeslawa Milosza w Ameryce," Zycie w przekladzie, Halina Stephan, ed., Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002: 37-59.
• "Herbert po angielsku. Z warsztatu tlumacza," Herbert i znaki czasu, E. Feliksiak, M. Lis and E. Sidorek, eds., Bialystok: Towarzystwo Literackie im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2001:71-82.
• "Zbigniewa Herberta lekcja sztuki," Poznawanie Herberta 2, Andrzej Franaszek, ed., Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2000: 213-226.
  

Book Translations:

• Poezje wybrane. Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert. Translations by John and Bogdana Carpenter, Czeslaw Milosz, and Peter Dale Scott. "Afterward" by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Edited by Tomasz Kunz. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie,
  2000. 215 pages.
• Elegy for Departure and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert.  Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Ecco Press, 1999. 132 pages.
• The King of the Ants. Mythological Essays by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Ecco Press, 1999. ix + 85 pages.
• Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter.  Oxford University Press,1993.  62 pages.
• Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Ecco Press, 1991.  162 pages.
• Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter. New York: Ecco Press, 1985. xii + 82.  Oxford-London:  Oxford University Press, 1987.  xii + 80 pages.
• Selected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert. Selected,translated, with an  introduction and notes, by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter. Oxford-London-New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. xiv + 82 pages.

Translations in Anthologies:

• Zbigniew Herbert's "Remembering My Father" in A Century of Poems From The Pages of the TLS 1902-2002, Mick Imlah and Alan Jenkins, eds., London: The Times Literary Supplement, 2002: 93.
• Z. Herbert's "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia," "The Missing Knot," "Old Prometheus," "Hermes, Dog, and Star," and "Shore," in Gods and Mortals. Modern Poems on Classical Myths, Nina Kossman, ed., Oxford-London-New York: Oxford University Press, 2001:6, 55-56, 88, 220-221, 239.
• Z. Herbert's "Speculations on the Subject of Barabbas," "Hakeldama," "Meditations of Mr. Cogito on Redemption," and "Mr. Cogito Tells about the Temptation of Spinoza," in The Gospels in Our Image. An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts, David Curzon, ed., New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995:59, 197, 204, 225.
• Z. Herbert's "What I Saw," "Report from the Besieged City," "Painter, " "The Wall," and "The Trial," in Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Carolyn Forche, ed., New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993:460-466.
• Z. Herbert's apocrypha "Voice," in Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, Herbert Leibowitz, ed., Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1994:353-387.
• Z. Herbert's 4 poems in The Poetry of Survival. Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe, Daniel Weissbort, ed., London: Penguin Books, 1991:155-159 and 163-64.
• Z. Herbert's 11 poems in Spoiling Cannibal's Fun.  Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule, Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh, eds., Evanston: Northwestern  University Press, 1991:93-114.
• Czeslaw Milosz's "Screens Will Be Set There" and "On the Book," Wislawa Szymborska's "The Joy of Writing," Zbigniew Herbert's "Mr. Cogito Considers the Difference Between the Human Voice and the Voice of Nature" and "Sense of
  Identity," in Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Emery George, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1983:107-108, 129-130, 137-138.
• Z. Herbert's "The Envoy of Mr. Cogito," in Czeslaw Milosz's Postwar Polish Poetry, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983:147-149.

Translations in Magazines:

• The New Yorker: Z. Herbert's poems in the following issues: "Three Poems," February 25, 1991:36; "Mr. Cogito Laments the Pettiness of Dreams," April 22, 1991:34; "Mr. Cogito Looks at a Deceased Friend," August 5, 1991:38; "Mr. Cogito and a Poet of Certain Age," February 10,1992:38; "Farewell to the City," May 18, 1992:64;"Prayer of the Old Men," November 23, 1992:68; "The Death of Lev," March 15, 1993:78; "What Our Dead Do," January 19, 1998:48; "From the End," April 27 & May 10, 1998; "A Ballad That We Do Not Perish," August 10, 1998; "Oath," May 27, 2002:100; "The Lyrical Zone," September 2, 2002:54; "A Portrait at the End of the Century," October 14 & 21, 2002:91.
• The New York Review of Books: Z. Herbert's "Transformations of Livy," November 6, 1986:10; Z. Herbert's "An Answer" and "We Fall Asleep on Words," January 16, 1992:17; "A Native Devil," "Fragment of a Greek Vase," and "Furnished Room," June 25, 1998:20; "Three Poems by Heart" and "Cernunnos," October 22, 1998:8; "Mr. Cogito. Ars Longa," March 9, 2000: 16; "Buttons," May 25, 2000:7.
• The Paris Review: Z. Herbert's poems in the following issues: "Ordinariness of the Soul," "Hakeldama," "Meditations of Mr. Cogito on Redemption," and "Mr. Cogito and Pop," no. 121, Winter 1991:37-42; "Speculations on the Subject of Barabbas," "Old Prometheus," "Those Who Lost," "Wit Stwosz: Madonna Falling Asleep," "Mr. Cogito and Pure Thought," "About Mr. Cogito's Two Legs," "Mr. Cogito and the Pearl," "Mr. Cogito Encounters a Statuette of the Great Mother in the Louvre," "Mr. Cogito Looks at His Face in the Mirror," no. 124, Fall 1992:215-225; "Prayer" (Lord, I give thanks to you...), "Prayer" (Lord, bestow on me the gift...), "Prayer" (Lord, help us to invent...) no. 154, Spring 2000: 29-31.
• The Kenyon Review: Z. Herbert's "The Gordian Knot," vol VI no. 3, Summer 1984:34-40; "Home," "The Wolf and the Sheep," "The Clock," and "A Suicide," vol. xxi no. 1, Winter 1999:19-21; "In a City," "The High Castle," and "Tenderness," vol.xxiii no.3-4,Summer/Fall 2001: 171-175.
• The Manhattan Review: Z. Herbert's "Clouds over Ferrara" and "The Calendars of Mr. Cogito," vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1999:6-9; "To Henryk Elzenberg," "To Peter Vujicic," "Pica Pica L.," "Flowers," "Can I Do Anything Else for You Sir," and "Telephone Call," vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2000:20-28.
• Chicago Review: Z. Herbert's "Rovigo" and "The Head" and Bronislaw Maj's "Night in the Railway Station" and "If I will Ever Speak," October 2000:21-22 and 123-124.
• Salmagundi: Ten Poems by Z. Herbert, no. 93, Winter,1992:125-142; "The Ornament Makers," "My Father," "The Poet's House," "Architecture," "Principiality," and "The Olympian General" (an essay), no.121-122, Winter-Spring 1999:3-81
• 2b. A Journal of Ideas: Z. Herbert's "Endymion," no. 13, 1998: 34-39.
• Grand Street 65: Z. Herbert's "Altar," "The Ardennes Forest," "Still Life," and "Impartial Autumn," vol. 17 no. 1, Summer 1998:131-135.
• The Antioch Review: Z. Herbert's "The Price of Art," vol. 49 no. 3, Summer 1991:441-454.
• The Artful Dodge: Z. Herbert's "Dutch Apocrypha," no. 20/21, 1991:16-37.
• Partisan Review: Z. Herbert's "Landscape" and "The Nepenthe Family," vol. LVI no. 1, 1989:113-114; "Life of a Warrior" and "Chinese Wallpaper," vol.LXVI no. 2, 1999:309.
• Antaeus: Z. Herbert's poems in the following issues: "Report from the Besieged City," "To Ryszard Krynicki--a Letter," "Beethoven," "The Power of Taste," "The Murderers of Kings," Mr. Cogito's Soul," "Mr. Cogito--the Return," no. 55, Autumn, 1985:110-123; "Elegy for the Departure of Pen, Ink and Lamp," no. 64/65, Spring-Autumn, 1990:52-56.
• Parnassus: Poetry in Review: Z. Herbert's poems and apocrypha in the following issues: "Voice," "Farewell," and "Oaks," vol. 14. no. 1, 1987:7-16; "Mass for the Imprisoned" and "Atlas," vol. 15 no. 2, 1989:26-30; "The King of the  "Ants," vol. 18 no. 2 & vol.19 no. 1, 1993:34-44.
• Encounter: Z. Herbert's "Mirror," January 1984:3-7; Z. Herbert's "The Fable About a Nail," "Blackthorn," and "Small Heart," July/August, 1987:20-21.
• Michigan Quarterly Review: Z. Herbert's "From the Top of the Stairs," vol. xxiii no. 3, Summer 1984:352-354; "The Book" and "Shame," vol. Xxxix, no. 1, Winter 2000:36-37.
• Dissent: Three Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, Fall 1984:448-452.
• The New York Times: Z. Herbert's "September 17," Sunday, May 1, 1983:23.
  

Articles:

•  "I Look for the Truths of the Earth in the Roots of Water," a bilingual English-Polish introduction to Danuta Kostewicz's Wiersze Wybrane, Warsaw: IBiS, 2005:7-14.
• "A Tribute to Adam Zagajewski," World Literature Today, 79:2 (May-August 2005): 14-15.
• "Wymiar etyczny i metafizyczny swiadectwa w poezji Zbigniewa Herberta i Czeslawa Milosza"(Ethical and metaphysical dimension of testimony in the poetry of  Zbigniew Herbert and Czeslaw Milosz) Teksty drugie (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences), no. 6 (2005): 21-30.
• "'The Barbarians Have Come' to Poland" Plus Poems by Five Contemporary Polish Poets, article cum translation, World Literature Today, 78:2 (May-August, 2004): 48-53.
• "Herbert in English: From the Translator's Workshop," The Polish Review, vol.XLVII no.1 (2002): 27-34.
• "Recepcja poezji Czeslawa Milosza w Ameryce" (Reception of
   Czeslaw Milosz's poetry in America"), Teksty drugie (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences) no. 3-4, 2001:99-114.
• "Zbigniew Herbert," an entry in Contemporary World Dictionary of Literary Biography 4: South Slavic and Eastern European Writing, 2000. A revised entry on Z. Herbert in Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers. Third Series. Detroit, San Francisco, London: A. Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2001:131-138.
• "Poezja Zbigniewa Herberta w krytyce anglosaskiej," (Z. Herbert's poetry in Anglo-Saxon criticism) Teksty drugie (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences) no. 3, 2000:7-19.
• "Zbigniewa Herberta lekcja sztuki" (Z. Herbert's the lesson of art), Tygodnik Powszechny (Krakow, Poland), no. 16 (April 18, 1999), p. II-III.  Reprint in Poznawanie Herberta 2, ed. by Andrzej Franaszek, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie,
  2000:213-226.
• "Czeslaw Milosz--the Scholar," Partisan Review, vol. LXVI no.1 (1999):90-93.
• "The Gift Returned," World Literature Today, special issue "Celebrating Czeslaw Milosz," vol. 73 no. 4 (Autumn 1999): 631-636.
• "Wislawa Szymborska: The Importance of the Unimportant," World Literature Today, vol. 71 no. 1 (Winter 1997):8-12. "Kto czyta w Ameryce poezje?" (Who reads poetry in America), Nowy Dziennik (Polish Daily News), New York, April 20, 1995:4-6.
• "The Lesson of Art: Zbigniew Herbert's Essays," Cross Currents, No. 11, 1992:127-138.
• "Sztuka przekladu" (The Art of Translation), O'Kay America, no. 5, October 1991:53.
• "Best Polish Books of 1991," interview for Radio Free Europe, December 18, 1991.
• "Zbigniew Herbert's Elegy for Departure," interview for Radio Free Europe, October 17, 1990.
• "Zbigniew Herbert, the Poet as Witness," The Polish Review, vol. xxxii no.1, 1987:5-14.
• "Czeslaw Milosz i Zbigniew Herbert: poeta wygnania i poeta powrotu" (Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert: the Poet of Exile and the Poet of Return), Literatura polska na obczyznie, Proceedings of the Congress of Polish Culture (September 1985), vol. v, 1988, London (Great Britain):176-193.
• "The Prose Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert: Forging a New Genre," Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 28 no.1, Spring 1984:76-88.
• "Zbigniew Herbert's Attack Against Myth," Cross Currents, 1984: 221-235.
• "Interview with Zbigniew Herbert," The Manhattan Review, vol. 3 no.2, Winter 1984-1985:4-8.
• "The Barbarian and the Garden: Zbigniew Herbert's Re-evaluations," World Literature Today, vol. 57 no.3, Summer 1983:388-393.
• "W. S. Reymont," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1983:31-33.
• "K. H. Rostworowski," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1983:89-90.
• "Stefan Zeromski," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1983:709-711.
• "Julian Przybos: the Double Image," The Polish Review, vol. xxvi no.2, 1981:23-34.
• "Zbigniew Herbert and the Imperfect Poem" (with John Carpenter), The Malahat Review, no.54 (April 1980):110-122.
• "Zbigniew Herbert: the Poet as Conscience" (with John Carpenter), The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 24 no.1, Spring 1980:37-51.
• "The Ordinary Material Object--Its Extraordinary Fate (with John Carpenter), World Literature Today, vol. 54 no.3, Summer 1980:369-375.
• "Stanislaw Witkiewicz: Notes from the Translator's Workshop" (with J. Carpenter), Translation Review, no.4, 1979:36-40.
• "The Recent Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert" (with John Carpenter) in World Literature Today, vol. 51 no.2, Spring 1977:210-214.
• "An Aunt or a Book?  Narrative Technique in Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke", Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, David Benseler, editor, vol. xxvii, Part I, 1977:154-157.
  

Conferences and Lectures:

• "French Surrealism and the Polish Avantgarde -- the Case of Two poets, Julian Przybos and Jan Brzekowski," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference, San Francisco, December, 1979.
• "Aleksander Wat-the Unknown Precursor of Polish Catastrophism," AATSEEL Conference, Houston, December, 1980.
• "Czeslaw Milosz's Catastrophism," Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, October, 1981.
• "Constructivist Tendencies of the Polish Avantgarde," AATSEEL Conference, New York, December, 1981.
• "The Barbarian and the Garden" Zbigniew Herbert's Re-evaluations," Canadian Association of Slavists' Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C., June, 1983.
• Organized and chaired a conference on "Literature and Culture in Post-Marxist Eastern Europe," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February, 1985.
• "Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert: the Poet of Exile and the Poet of Return," Congress of Polish Culture, London, England, September, 1985.
• "Zbigniew Herbert: the Poet as Witness," IIId World Congress of Slavists, Washington, D.C., October, 1985.
• Organized and chaired a Seminar on "The Political Role of Contemporary East European Literature," The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., February, 1986.
• Organized and chaired the panel on literature at the conference on "State and society in Eastern Europe," The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., October, 1986.
• Organized and chaired the panel, "East European Writers in Exile," AAASS conference, New Orleans, November, 1986.
• Chaired the panel on "Polish Literature," Midwest Slavic Conference, Ann Arbor, April, 1987.
• "Tadeusz Borowski's War Poetry," presented at AAASS Conference, Boston, November, 1987.
• Chaired a panel at the International Lesmian Conference, Chicago, November, 1987.
• Discussant in a panel on "Polish Twentieth Century Literature, AAASS Conference, Washington, October, 1990.
• Discussant in a workshop "Securing Your Future: Graduate School  from a Woman's Perspective," Center for the Education of Woman, University of Michigan, October 5, 1991.
• Organized and chaired symposium "The Formation of National Consciousness: Poland," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 15, 1992.
• Chair/Commentator of a panel "A Bruno Schulz Commemoration, 1892-1992," Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, May 1992.
• Chair/Commentator of a panel "Polish Literature," Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, May 1992.
• "Literature as a Window to Eastern Europe," presented at AAASS, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1992.
• "Zbigniew Herbert: Ethics and Poetry," Center for Russian and East European  Studies, University of Michigan, February 1993.
• Chair/Organizer of a panel "Poles in their own Eyes and under the Eyes of Others," Midwest Slavic Conference, Lansing, Michigan, May 1993.
• Discussant in a panel "Nothingness in Slavic Literatures," Midwest Slavic Conference, Lansing, Michigan, May 1993.
• Lecture on "Politics and Literature in Postwar Poland," The Alumni Association, University of Michigan, June 8, 1993.
• "Teaching Polish Cultural History" (Roundtable), AAASS Conference, Philadelphia, November 1994.
• Interview, Nowy Dziennik, New York, May 1995.
• Discussant in a conference on "Polish Literature Studies and Education" (Wiedza o literaturze i edukacja), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, May 22-25, 1995.
• Lecture (by invitation of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures) on "Contemporary Polish Poetry" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, September 22, 1995.
• Lecture (by invitation) on "Polish Poetry Today" at the International Forum of the Ecumenical Center and International Residence, University of Michigan, November 14, 1995.
• Discussant in a roundtable "Building a Bibliography of Sources in English on Poland," The Woodrow Wilson Center, East European Studies Program, November 4, 1996.
• Lecture (by invitation) on "Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature," University of Michigan Symposium on the 1996 Nobel Prize Winners, January 14, 1996.
• Lecture (by invitation) on "The Poetic World of Wislawa Szymborska," Ohio State University, February 17, 1997.
• Lecture on "The City in Literature, " CREES Global Education Workshop for Teachers, March 17, 1997.
• "Wislawa Szymborska's Use of Perspective" presented at AAASS, Seattle, Washington, November 22, 1997.
• Discussant in a panel "Polish Culture after Szymborska and Kieslowski," AAASS, Seattle, Washington, November 22, 1997.
• Lecture (by invitation) on "Polish Poetry Today," University of Indiana in Bloomington, February 19, 1998.
• Moderator, panel on Bruno Schulz, Center for Russian & EE Studies and the Slavic Department, University of Michigan, March 11, 1998.
• "Czeslaw Milosz - a Scholar of Slavic Literatures" (by invitation), The International Milosz Festival, Claremont McKenna College, California, April 26, 1998.
• "Carnival and Apocalypse: Central European Arts Between the Wars," Alumni University Summer Seminar, University of Michigan, June 15, 1998.
• "Czeslaw Milosz and America," AAASS, Boca Raton, FL., Sept. 25, 1998.
• Lecture on "Polish Poetry Today" and a reading of Zbigniew Herbert's poetry (by invitation), University of New Hampshire, April 22, 1999.
• Workshop on Polish Studies Abroad, International Committee on Polish Studies Abroad, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, April 26-28, 1999,September 27, 1999, April 26, 2000.
• "Herbert po angielsku. Z warsztatu tlumacza" (Herbert in English. From the Translator's Workshop), "Herbert i znaki czasu. Colloquia Herbertiana (I)," University of Bialystok, Poland, May 17-19, 2000.
• Participant in a workshop "Problems in Theories and Praxis of Expatriate/Émigré/Diasporic Literature," AAASS in Denver, Colorado, November 11, 2000.
• Discussant in a panel "Philo-Semitism in Polish Literature," AAASS in Denver, Colorado, November 10, 2000.
• "A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert," lecture and poetry reading (with J. Carpenter) at the Poetry Center of Chicago, February 21, 2001 (by invitation).
• Moderator at a symposium "Taboo Topics in Polish and Polish/Jewish Literature," CREES, University of Michigan, April 5, 2001.
• Co-organizer of the Second Congress of Polish Studies Abroad, Gdansk, Poland, June 28-July 1, 2001.
• Participant in a Roundtable "Marketing the Diaspora: Polish Culture in America," AAASS in Washington, DC, November 18, 2001.
• Respondent to a presentation by Brian Porter "The Many Meanings of Modern Mary: The Virgin in Polish Catholicism," CREES Faculty Seminar, March 11, 2003.
• "La dimension éthique at la dimension métaphysique du temoignage dans la poésie de Zbigniew Herbert et Czeslaw Milosz," (Ethical and metaphysical dimension of bearing witness in the poetry of Z. Herbert and Cz. Milosz) International Colloquium on "La place du témoignage dans la littérature polonaise du XXe siècle," Université de Paris-Sorbonne, April 2, 2003.
• Moderator on a panel "Poetry of Adam Zagajewski," University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 1, 2004.
• "Tribute to Adam Zagajewski," Presentation of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize in Literature, The University of Oklahoma, October 1, 2004.
• "Tribute to Czeslaw Milosz," Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, October 17, 2004.
• "Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz," lecture at Madonna University in Orchard Lake, Michigan, April 3, 2005.
• Participant, I Swiatowy Kongres Tlumaczy Polskiej Literatury (I World Congress of the Translators of Polish Literature), Cracow, Poland, May 11-14, 2005.
• "Czeslaw Milosz in America," presentation for the participants of  Letnia Szkola yszehradzka (Visegrad Summer School), Cracow, July 5, 2005.
• "A Moment before Coda: Zbigniew Herbert's Last Poems," ICCEES (International Council of Central and East European Studies), Berlin, Germany, July 27, 2005.
• Featured speaker, fundraising event to launch Polish Studies at Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, September 23, 2005.
• "Between Dada and Constructivism: Polish Avantgarde Poetic Project," Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 4,2005.

Awards:

• Golden Cross of Merit, conferred by the President of the Poland, Warsaw, October 13, 1999.
• Columbia University Translation Center Merit Award for Z. Herbert's Still Life with a Bridle,1992.
• American Council for Polish Culture Clubs, first prize for Monumenta Polonica, 1991.
• Island and Continents Translation Award, second prize, 1979.
• 1979 Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Prize, given by the Poetry Society of America for Selected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert (together with John R. Carpenter).
  
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