Stanislaw Baranczak

Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature

barancz[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1973 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

Interests: Modern Polish literature, Polish poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary translation.

Current Courses: (none)

Works:
• A Fugitive from Utopia: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert (1987)
• Breathing Under Water, and Other East European Essays (1990)
• Spoiling Cannibals= Fun=: Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule (an anthology, ed. and transl. With Clare Cavanagh)
• Wislawa Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (1995, ed. and transl. with Clare Cavanagh)
• Jan Kochanowski, Laments (1995, transl. with Seamus Heany).

Work in Progress:
• Polish Poetry After 1944
• Three Great Polish Romantic Poets (transl. with Clare Cavanagh).