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CLARE CAVANAGH
Associate Professor
Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature
4107 Crowe Hall
(847) 467-2360
ccavanagh5@northwestern.edu |
Research Interests:
1) Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Poetry
2) Modern Polish Poetry
3) Polish Literature, History and Culture
4) Literature and Politics
5) Comparative Modernism: Russian, Polish, English, French
6) Anglo-American Poetry
7) Contemporary Theory, Gender Theory
Current Projects:
1) Associate Editor, "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" (scheduled for 2009), responsible for entries, Eastern Europe, Translation, Modern Anglo-American Poetry.
2) "Oho: Selected Poetry, Prose, and Theater of Miron Bialoszewski," tr. Clare Cavanaghand Stanislaw Baranczak, with an introduction by Edward Hirsch (proposal solicited by Yale UP)
3) Poetry and Power: Russia, Poland and the West (forthcoming, Yale University Press). An examination of Russian and Polish romantic myths of the poet-prophet as they come into contact, and conflict, with Soviet power. I use the specificities of these traditions to address questions of the relationship between poetry and society in both Western poetry and recent theory.
4) Czeslaw Milosz and His Century: A Critical Life (under contract; Farrar Straus Giroux). An authorized biography of the Nobel-Prize winning poet.
5) Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor (essays) Translator (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004).
6) Wislawa Szymborska, Moment (poems) . Translator, with Stanislaw Baranczak (Harcourt Brace, 2005
Recent courses taught:
Slavic 261: Poland in the Twentieth Century
Slavic 390: Literature and Politics in Russia "Survey of Russian Poetry: 19th Century"
Slavic 314: Chekhov
Slavic 392: Contemporary East European Literature
Gender Studies 390: Twentieth Century Russian Women Writers
Gender Studies 390: Gender and Modernism
Slavic 411: Proseminar
Slavic 438: Graduate Seminars: Blok and Yeats; Russian Romanticism and the West; Poetry and Diaspora
Slavic 490: Masterpieces of Polish Literature
Selected Publications
1) Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition (Princeton UP, 1995). Winner, 1997 AATSEEL Award, Outstanding work of scholarship.
2) Wislawa Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand (Harcourt Brace,1995), tr. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Winner, 1996 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, outstanding literary translation; 1996 AATSEEL Prize, outstanding literary translation; cited by Swedish Academy as an "excellent survey" in press announcement of Szymborska's Nobel Prize.
3) Wislawa Szymborska, Poems New and Collected, tr. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh (Harcourt Brace, 1998). A Los Angeles Times Outstanding Book of the Year.
4) Adam Zagajewski, Mysticism for Beginners. Translator (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998). A Los Angeles Times Outstanding Book of the Year.
5) Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty. Translator. (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000).
6) Adam Zagajewski, Without End. Co-translator. (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002) Finalist, National Book Award, 2002; New York Times Notable Book for 2002
7) Wislawa Szymborska, Non-required Reading (Harcourt Brace, 2002). Finalist, PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
Cavanagh's essays and translations have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, Common Knowledge, Poetry, Literary Imagination and other periodicals. She has received Guggenheim, ACLS and SSRC grants, the PMLA William Riley Parker Prize, and the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for her work on Russian and Polish poetry.
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