Research Interests

I lead a split existence, teaching mainly about Russian or comparative East European literature and writing exclusively about things Polish. Most of my publications, including criticism and literary translations, focus on post-war writers, with an emphasis on the literary representation of the Holocaust and of Polish-Jewish relations. I am particularly interested in the ways that works of literature reflect and influence historical and political currents-an interest that is reflected in both my scholarship and teaching. Over the last 10-15 years, much of my creative energy has been directed toward what I like to call the scholarly art of literary translation.

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Recent Selected Publications:

Books, Edited and Translated
1. Czeslaw Milosz.Milosz's ABC's. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 312 pp. (Awarded 2003 AATSEEL Translation Prize.)
2. Czeslaw Milosz.To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays.Edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. xvi + 462 pp.
3. Czeslaw Milosz.Legends of Modernity.New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, edp. 2005.
Articles
4. "Abecadlo i trzecia powiesc Czeslawa Milosza, jak dotad nie napisana." Translated into Polish by Michal Rusinek. In: Poznawanie Milosza 2: czesc druga 1980-1998 in:,ed. Aleksandr Fiut. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001. Pp. 305-315. [Reprint of article first published in Dekada Literacka (Krakow) 8:5 (141), May 31, 1998, pp. 4-5.]
5. "Wiktor Weintraub: Professing Polish Studies in America," Between Lvov, New York and Ulysses' Ithaca: Józef Wittlin, Poet, Essayist, Novelist, ed. Anna Frajlich. Archives of Polish Emigration Series. Torun and New York: Copernicus University and Department of Slavic Languages and the East Central European Center, Columbia University, 2001, pp. 213-224.
6. "Introduction" to Czeslaw Milosz, To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essay. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Pp. vii-xvi. [Co-authored with Bogdana Carpenter]
7. "Eva Hoffman: Falszujac postmodernistyczna tozsamosc." Translated into Polish by Tomasz Zukowski. In: Zycie w przekladzie, ed. Halina Stephan. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001. Pp. 258-275.
8. "Home Loss in Wartime Literature: A typology of Images," in: Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, ed. Bozena Shallcross. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. pp. 97-115
9. "Eva Hoffman: Forging a Postmodern Identity," in: Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America,editor(s),pages and dates

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Courses Regularly Taught: