Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American
literary critic
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
, a
Slavist, and a translator. She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at
Northwestern University. An acclaimed translator of contemporary Polish poetry, she is currently under contract to write the authorized biography of
Czesław Miłosz. She holds a B.A from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and PhD from
Harvard University (1978, 1981 and 1988 respectively). Before coming to Northwestern University, she taught at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work has been translated into Russian, Polish, Hungarian, French, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
She has published a paper about post-colonial literature of Poland.
Awards and honors
Her honors include: the
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for ''Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West''. the
William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association; the AATSEEL Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Slavic Literature; the Ilchester Lecture in Slavonic Literatures, Oxford University; the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation; the Katharine Washburne Memorial Lecture in Translation; the
PEN/Book-of-the Month Club Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation; the AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Translation from a Slavic Language; elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. Cavanagh's essays and translations “have appeared in TLS, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, Partisan Review, Common Knowledge, Poetry, Literary Imagination and other periodicals.”
“Northwestern University Faculty Webpage”
''Slavic Department at Northwestern University'', Evanston. Retrieved on 20 July 2015.
Selected bibliography
Books
*Czeslaw Milosz and His Age: A Critical Life. Under contract, Farrar Straus, Giroux.
*''Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West''. Yale University Press (January 5, 2010), ,
*''Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition''. Princeton University Press (November 14, 1994), ,
Edited books
*''Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', Roland Greene, editor-in-chief, Stephen Cushman, general editor, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer, associate editors, Princeton University Press, 2012.
Translations
*''Map: Collected and Last Poems'', Wislawa Szymborska, ed. Clare Cavanagh, tr. Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2015), ,
*''Unseen Hand: Poems'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition (June 5, 2012), ,
*''Here'', Wislawa Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak. Mariner Books (August 7, 2012), ,
*''Eternal Enemies'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 31, 2009), ,
*''Monologue of a Dog'', Wislawa Szymborska. Co-translator with Stanislaw Baranczak. Foreword by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Harcourt (November 7, 2005), ,
*''A Defense of Ardor'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar Straus Giroux (October 19, 2004), ,
*''Nonrequired Reading: Selected Prose'', Wislawa Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 28, 2002), ,
*''View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems'', Wislawa Szymborska, co-tr. Clare Cavanagh with Stanislaw Baranczak Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
. Harcourt Brace (May 26, 1995), ,
*''Spoiling Cannibals' Fun: Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule'', ed. and tr. Clare Cavanagh with Stanislaw Baranczak Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
. Northwestern University Press, (December 1991), ,
See also
* Russian Literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were c ...
* Osip Mandelstam
* Adam Zagajewski
* Wisława Szymborska
* Czesław Miłosz
* Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...
*20th-century lyric poetry In the early years of the 20th century, rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in America, Europe and the British colonies. The relevance and acceptability of the lyric in the modern age was, t ...
* Culture during the Cold War
* American poetry
* Russian poetry
* Polish poetry
*Literary criticism
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
* Translation
* Modernist poetry
* Stanisław Barańczak
* National Book Critics Circle Award
References
External links
Faculty Webpage
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1956 births
Living people
American literary critics
Women literary critics
Northwestern University faculty
Slavists
English
Harvard University alumni
20th-century translators
20th-century American women writers
American women academics
21st-century American women
American women critics