Bogdana Maria-Magdalena Carpenter (Chetkowska)
Slavicist, author
Born Jun. 2, 1941, Czestochowa, Poland; came to U.S., 1965; daughter of Jozef and Maria (Gordon); married John Carpenter; children: Michael, Magdalena.
Education: Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Warsaw (Poland), 1963; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
Career: assistant prof., University of Washington, Seattle, 1974-83; assistant prof., 1983-85, associate prof., 1985-91, prof., 1991 -, University of Michigan.
Author: The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-39, 1983; Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry, 1989; co-translator (with John Carpenter), Z. Herbert, Selected Poems, 1977, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, 1985, Still life with a Bridle, 1991, and Mr. Cogito, 1993.
Member of: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (executive committee member, Midwest chapter); Academic Advisory Council, East European Program, The Wilson Center, 1985-90, Polish - American Ethnic Committee, New City (NY); director, Copernicus Endowment, Ann Arbor (MI).
Honors: W. Bynner Poetry Translation 1st Prize, 1979; grants, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Fulbright - Hays, 1976, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), 1987, ACLS, 1990; 1st prize, American Council of Polish Culture (A.C.P.C.), 1991; Merit Award, Columbia University Translation Center, 1992.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Italian, Russian.
Office: University of Michigan, Slavic Languages and Literatures, 3040 MLB, Ann Arbor MI 48109
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996