Rena Anna Lamparska (Syska)
Italian literature educator
Born Czersk, Poland; came to U.S., 1967; daughter of Zygmunt and Halina (Wisniewska); child: John O.
Education: Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Wroclaw (Poland); Master of Arts (M.A.), Catholic University of America, Washington (DC); Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge (MA).
Career: assistant prof., 1983-87, associate prof., 1987 -, Boston College, Chestnut Hill (MA).
Author: Stanislaw Brzozowski: A Polish Vichian, 1987; Imagination and Its Role in the Activation of Knowledge: Studies in Eighteenth - Century Poetics (in progress); namerous scientific articles in Polish, American, and Italian professional journals.
Member of: American Association for Italian Studies; Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth - Century Studies; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: grant, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), 1993.
Languages: Polish, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Russian.
Home: 8 Plympton St. #61, Cambridge, MA 02138.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996